Mary's Perspectives on Life

About the Book

Most of my poems are from life, love, and Mother Nature. My perspectives on life as I feel them about everything that I see, feel, and hear around me and about everything on this earth that comes to my mind—our binds with Mother Nature, with people, our inner feelings, our love for our parents first, our family, then our wives/husbands, our sweet children, and their children. And we should never forget our thanks to our great Creator for the many blessings he has given us up to now, the latest high technology and the Internet, our great earth we live on, about all peoples on earth as we are all from Adam and Eve. As these days, there is less love, which is sharing and caring and less charity around our world for all humanity around us. I’ve written about the awful wars everywhere, particularly the revolution in Syria, which began four years ago—and nothing has been done about it.

About the Author

I was born in Grand Haven, Michigan. I had a happy childhood, thanks to my great parents. When I finished junior high, my family moved to Damascus, Syria. There, I finished my studies. I first worked as an English teacher in high schools. After five years, I got a job as head of public relations with the Syrian Insurance Company for sixteen years. Then in 1991, I returned to the USA and worked with Metropolitan Insurance Company as telecommunicator in Saint Louis for two years. In 2003, I returned to Damascus and worked in the private tutor program with the American Language Center (ALC) until 2012. Because of the events in the revolution, the ALC has been closed down, but I still give private lessons in English at home. I began writing my first poems in 1975 about what I feel, see, and hear and my feelings, and ties with Mother Nature; about the earth and sky; about the four seasons; about life and love, its happiness and hardships; and about marriage and broken homes we hear of and see. I’ve written about the devastating war in Syria that continues till now for four years—and nothing has been done about it. If there were more love in the world, there would not be any more wars and cruelty, starvation, and refugees. But I never thought of publishing my work until my dear son and daughter encouraged me to do so.