ARTICLES:
Ancient Chinese Medicine: Herbs & Acupuncture
Some Helpful News
Help for Postpartum Depression
Mental Health Insurance: A True Dilemma
You're Wonderful (Dealing with Learning Disabilities)
Problems With Self-Esteem
CHILDREN'S STORIES:
A Land in the Sky
A Monster in the Sand
"Long Face John"
Little Betty Buy Me
POEMS:
STANDARD:
THE BARK OF A TREE
BRANCHES
THE BUS RIDE
THE CLOUD
FIRST MAMAOGRAPHY
THE FLOWER
IMAGINATIONS RUN WILD
MY MAGICAL FANTASY
THE POOR MAN
SNAPPING ROSE PEDALS WITH GRANDMA
TIME
WIND CHIME VOICES
WAR & PEACE:
A LETTER TO DAD
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
LOVE, ROMANCE & BROKEN HEARTS:
I STILL LOVE YOU, BUT NOT IN THAT WAY
WHEN I KNEW YOU
WALK WITH ME
MY LOVER
THE RED DRESS
FROM PARI TO HOME
THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE
FANTASY
BEFORE I GO
LIFE -
THE GOOD AND THE BAD:
A NEW AGE
A WIDE OPEN RANGE
IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY
THE DUSTY ROAD
MY DAYS OF PAIN:
HAPPINESS BARRED
HEAR THE BIRDS
HOLLOWED
DROWN OUT THE SORROW
DEMONS
TICK TOCK
FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE:
TO MOM
YOU'RE WONDERFUL (MATTHEW)
AT AGE TWELVE (MATTHEW)
LIFE MOVES ON (MATTHEW)
THE PHOTOGRAPH (MOM)
I SAID A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY (DAD)
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
THE FACE 0F AN ANGEL (PENN)
HUMOR:
TO MY COUSIN, SUZIE
WORKING MOTHER OF SIX
GEOMETRICAL DISAPPOINTMENT
A CLICHED RELATIONSHIP ENDED
GIRL'S NIGHT
SHOES
CHRISTMAS:
CHRISTMAS MORNING (FROM A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY)
A CHRISTMAS STORY (SPYING ON SANTA)
LONG POETRY:
THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR
My Favorite Quotes:

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."
~Lyman Frank Baum
HOPE:
(Given to me by my father the night before my book signing)
"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope. With hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream. If you have hope, you have everything."
~Unknown~
"GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT!"
~UNKNOWN~
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
~My Beloved Uncle Eddie, Ed Longo~
"SHOOT FOR THE MOON...EVEN IF YOU DON'TMAKE IT, YOU'RE CERTAIN TO LAND AMONG THE STARS!!!
~FROM A SPECIAL DRAGONFLY~
"I've known both happiness and sadness in my life and the longer I live, I cherish both every day."
~Judy Burkham~
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
~George Carlin~
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
~Marian Wright Edelman ~
"No act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
~Aesop~
"There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way."
"Life is nothing more than a BLT (Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich)...Balls, Luck and Timing."
Two of my favorite quotes by William Hazlitt:
"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come."
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and how to endure very much."
For You Dad:
"HARD WORK IS THE BASIS OF EVERY GREAT ACHIEVEMENT":
~Unknown~
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
~Thomas Alva Edison~
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
~Christopher Morley~
"Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty."
~Voltaire~
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"Providence has a hidden charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them."
~Annie-Sophie Swetchine~


For KR:
"The BIGGEST mistake people make in life; is not trying to make a living at doing what they enjoy most."
~Unknown~
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
~Hebrews 11: 1~
(For Krissy):
~Michelle Longo-Bloom~
"Never forget where you came from."
~Michael Longo ~ (My Father)
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There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. "Good things come to high achievers and those who do not soak the... u know it honey.
The world is ready for you!" Love ya, ~Mish~ "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." ~Lady Marguerite Blessington~ ... (so for all of you who know me, you know I must have been pretty down & out, LOL!) ~Mom~
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever!" ~John Keats~ ![]() CONTINUE TO SCROLL DOWN |
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~Michelle Longo-Bloom~
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