ARTICLES:
Mental Health Insurance: A True Dilemma
Problems With Self-Esteem
Help for Postpartum Depression
You're Wonderful (Dealing with Learning Disabilities)
Is Suicide Selfish?
A Thousand Times Over
A Deadly Dichotomy
Just Something to Think About
Quite A Vivid Memory
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."
"TaKe ThE fIrSt sTeP iN fAiTh, YoU dOn'T hAvE tO sEe ThE wHoLe StAiRcAsE, jUsT tHe FiRsT sTeP."
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."
Michael Longo (My Father)
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."
Michael (My
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
(Dedicated to Krissy):
"Fragility no longer manifests other than in a positive light."
Michelle Longo-Bloom
"Never forget where you came from."
Michael Longo (My Father)
For Nancy P. for all your effort:
Unknown
"Every moment is a chance to turn your life around."
Unknown
To all the girls...Eddy 1??...OMG. CAN U BELIEVE I FORGOT...LET'S NOT GO THERE!!! Oh yeah, GOT IT..."Eddy 120!" HOW COULD I HAVE EVER FOGOTTEN; IT'S ONLY BEEN 22 YEARS & LOOK AT US ALL... STILL???!!! AND STILL, SOME THINGS WE'LL NEVER TELL...RIGHT!!! LOVE ALL OF U SO SO MUCH!!! NEVER FORGET; ALWAYS REMEMBER... "Reach it; catch it..." TAKE IT FROM THERE---- THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF U FOR EVERYTHING AND ALL OF YOUR LOVE & SUPPORT. LOVE 4EVER, MISH, XOXOXOXO
"Anyone's who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in."
Cher
(...so how about that acting professor, Dar)
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
To My Dearest Amy,
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!)
Family is key!!!
Michelle Longo-Bloom
TO MY PARENTS:
Where would I be, what would I do
BETTER than you!
All my Love,
..And to my sister and brother, you are GREAT and I love you...I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD!
Michelle Longo-Bloom
MATTHEW, YOU ARE INCREDIBLE; YOU ARE MY LIFE!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever!
John Keats
Our Dog, CHARLIE!!!

Michelle Longo-Bloom
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Finally, when asked, "Who is the love of my life?" The answer is...ME!!!
Michelle Longo-Bloom
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Me at age 2
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