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Author: Lucy Cortese

Living my personal mission statement, “Each One, Teach One,” my greatest blessing is being the mother of two, grandmother of three and a lifelong educator. A graduate of UF and UNF, I am the former principal of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and executive director of Tree Hill Nature Center in Jacksonville. Since retirement my avocation is now my vocation – freelance writing. The technical writing of past professional life evolved into more creative genres of poetry, short fiction and memoir. My goal is to invoke the entire spectrum of human emotions in my reader: longing to laughter, pain to promise, despair to discernment.

Ghost Of Christmas Past

Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the house Water standing in puddles Mama starting to grouse Three pipes in the floor had all

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THANKSGIVING ROSE

Pink petals and emerald leaves sing out insistent summons Pick me and bring me home…my name is Tiffany Rose Siren calls the doting couple pierced

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Hands In The Kitchen

” Look at my hand. It’s big as yours!” I stop stirring batter and wipe the sticky residue on a kitchen towel. My fingers and

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Hoarders Beware!

“Have we met before?” My mother and I smiled at the query that we heard every night. At precisely at 9:45 pm Iris wandered the

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Letter To My Teenage Self

Dearest Lucille, First of all, you are beautiful–the most lovely you will ever be. Ignore those blackheads and arm pimples that blemish your adorable body.

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Food Glorious Foodie

To this Italiana — Food is family. Food is fun. Food is love. Comfort food is forever synonymous with Italian food. Consider Mama Giardino’s answer

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Whitey and Me

He was the gift that every little girl longs for…her very own pony. Whitey cameinto my life at an early age. The elegant horse was

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Rainbow Dialogue

 Conversations with my grandson cause delicious dread Deciphering innocent inquiries that fill his adorable head   Did you ride on dinosaurs when you were a

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Three Bears Rewind

My three-year old granddaughter sat immobilized, hands folded on the lap of her flowered sundress. Big blue eyes stared at the stage following every move

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