Impressions: From Someone of a Certain Age

This is a book of 80 poems inspired by my life and by the lives of my friends and acquaintances as well as by nature and by my animal companions. These poems are presented in a variety of styles and forms and are meant to give pleasure and to entertain. If they make the reader smile, reflect and remember some nostalgic events from their own life, I will have achieved my goal.

My eighty poems reflect my thoughts and impressions of nature, relationships with both people and animals and feelings of love. There are some that humorously portray conflicts and disappointments, the "inevitables" of life, but in a gentle way. They are meant to entertain and are actually quite straightforward reads. I found inspiration in my own life and loves as well as from the lives of my friends and acquaintances. If they make the reader smile, reflect and pause to remember some nostalgic events from their own lives, I will have achieved my goal.

Susan Anthony-Tolbert, Professor Emeritus, is a native of Scranton, Pa. She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from Temple University and served as a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Undergraduate Psychology Program during a tenure of thirty years at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She has numerous publications in psychology journals as well as having authored textbooks in personality, social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and observational methods. She has worked in clinical and rehab settings as a psychologist. Music has always played an important part in her life. Currently, she is a free-lance harpist and marimbaist with CDs selling both locally and nationally. As a lifelong equine enthusiast, Susan continues to pursue equestrian activities on her horse, News Flash. She lives with her husband, Dorian, and their beloved cats at their Dun-it Farm. Her books on historical events and topics include: Until the Guns Went Silent; A Quiet Glory: The Life and Times of Dr. James Skelton Gilliam of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia; The Home Front: Northumberland County, Virginia in World War II; Menominee, Lost Lights! The Sinking of the Unarmed Tug and Its Barges off the Virginia Coast in World War II; Lucy Long, Robert E. Lee's Other Warhorse: The Mare with Mysteries; Barge Dog: Virginia Coast, 1942; Horse of the Sand Pounder: East Coast, World War II; The Ditch of the Bells, World War I: The Story of Red Cross Nurse, Bessie W. Omohundro, from Northumberland County, Virginia; and Adrienne, La Fayette's Sweet Fire. In addition to several children's books, Susan's novels include: When the Red Jacket Sings; Harmonic; A Modern American Christmas; The Lynx and the Lioness: When a Sibling Kills; The Sweet Man in the Woods; Woman to Woman! Two Novellas of Friends and Enemies; Signs, Sounds, Silences and Secrets and "Tin Noses, Tim Roses: Love Stories from World War One." Recently she has written several books of poetry and rhyme: Rhymes without Reasons! Stories for All Season! and Traces! Poems from My Everyday Life.