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Coming of Age at this AGE

7/9/2015

 
     I had several careers: beginning as a kitchen worker at the age of 15 years in the local hospitals. I left  Camden  for New York and spread my wings  as a sales girl at Macy’s in New York before heading to the  Lincoln School for Nurses in the Bronx. I left there to pursue a short career in the Army Nurse Corps at West Point and later in Bussac. France.  Leaving there I came back to complete my Bachelor’s and Master Degrees at Teachers College, Columbia University.
     After completing my studies I began teaching Psychology and Sociology to nursing students. My last professional career was spent working with young people in the Philadelphia public school system. When I retired my immediate plans  included traveling to other countries and designing  beaded jewelry from the stones I collected in my world travels.
      I have always been an avid reader, a people watcher problem  solver for myself as  well as many of the  students  I served during my three decades of counseling them.. I was content to get inside of other people’s heads. Exposing my thoughts in writing was something I hadn’t  pondered. but then I  decided I had to write some positive poems and themes in 1993 to down play some of the negative words and music which seemed to be everywhere.
     Yes, I had written in my creative writing courses, but it was always the critiquing of another person’s writing, that I  enjoyed, And so  putting together my opinionated creative writings and try to make them “hang for others” was a task. Only after I did several revisions was I able to allow anyone to see or hear what I had written. Forces moved me to complete and publish a book combining the survival skills of faith, love and hope. My inspirational poems, 8x12 framed and unframed, became  very popular before and after the book Lifting Voices was published.
     I decided to  self publish my first book in 1999 after a traditional  publisher said, "It will take another year." I had no intention of writing  another book. It was too much work and I was “too old.” I left the conference with the voice of my instructor ringing  in my ear. She praised my writing and said, “Peggy, what’s age got to do with it? "
     Slowly the muse sitting on my shoulder made me realize that I  needed to start paying attention to some of the beginning “stories”  revolving in my grey matter. It was then I realized that it was my time to write!  



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