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Writing comes from the head but is born in the heart. Our hopes, joys, and sadness all find their way onto the page sculpted by our own experience. Friendship, love, loss, grief, decisions made, dreams extinguished, plans realized -these shape our lives and define who we are. This book is a reflection of my years as a print and broadcast journalist, copy editor, fiction writer, and occasional poet. Many subjects on these pages spring from personal experience. The poems come from times of wondering, searching and growing. The essays and short stories are largely fictional, and the characters are mostly composites. If you write frequently or only occasionally, it means you have something to say. Put your words on paper and share them. You never know how they might touch someone else and inspire their own journey. If you are uncertain, join a writing group. Wonderful encouragement came to me from fellow writers and poets in classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, sessions with Coffee with Poets and Writers and Netwest Bee City Poets in Hayesville, North Carolina, and critiques during Room for Poetry gatherings in Young Harris, Georgia

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Lorraine Martin Bennett is a print, web and broadcast journalist who grew up in the rural Martins Creek Community near Murphy, North Carolina, graduated with her high school class journalism medal and received a scholarship to UNC Chapel Hill where she earned her degree. Her reporting career began on the Atlanta Journal where she wrote features, covered news and met her late husband Tom, also a journalist. She was hired by the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper's first woman to head a domestic bureau. She joined Ted Turner's fledgling CNN as a news writer when the burgeoning network was only three years old. There she became copy editor, producer, and editorial manager before ending her television career as a senior copy editor at CNN International. In retirement, she writes essays, short stories, flash fiction, poetry and still practices her craft by copy editing and writing for the Clay County Progress. Her essays have appeared in the Personal Story Publishing Project (Daniel Boone Footsteps, Winston-Salem, N.C.) and her poetry has been published by the Huntsville Literary Association in Huntsville, Ala. Her poetry and essays have won awards in the Cherokee and Clay County Senior Games Silver Arts division. Her first novel, a psychological thriller titled Cat on a Black Moon, was published by Austin Macauley (London, Cambridge, New York) in 2023. A sequel, Darla, was published by the same group in 2024 and a third novel, 20 Seconds to Midnight, in 2025. Reflections, a book of poetry, essays, short stories and flash fiction, published by Booklogix of Alpharetta, Ga. reflects her personal growth as poet. Her essays and short stories are largely fiction with some composite characters.

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