Welcome, friends, to the world of Sharp Little Pencil. I am a published poet and songwriter, a member of Poets United and Imaginary Garden With Real Toads.
This blog serves as a conduit to my main blog, so if you're ready for poetry with an attitude about everything from free speech to LGBTQ rights (I'm a PFLAG mom) to hot jazz to cold Wisconsin winters to my years in California getting stoned in Venice Beach to everything that's wrong with the government to things that caused me to have an FBI file to my marriage and my up-and-coming artist daughter (Husband: Lex; Daughter: Riley) to my career as a singer/songwriter playing piano in bars, nightclubs, cabarets... to the Irish side of my family and my mom, Charlotte - how she grew up during the depression and sang her way out of Council Bluffs, Iowa, to... CLICK HERE!
Did I mention I live with manic depression and PTSD? Yupper. Lots to talk about. See you on the flip side, Amy
