Although with more than 30 years of employment in communications, and health care, The author was writing as an avocation. In that process, using both poetry and prose, she arrived at brevity of style she calls "essentialist".Her collected body of work represents a "summary of passage", not only in a personal sense, but for a generation emerging from the Great Depression, through two world wars, and into the issues of current times. This Generational experience is reflected in the writings, and faith in endurance for our future.