For poems and prose by Tina, please click on Musings here.
For books, designed and written by the artist, please browse this page. Here, a short selection accompanies each cover image. All are available through Amazon in print and e-book formats.
“In this somber February, when graciousness and goodness slumber deep under layers of words of vitriol and emotional detritus, her tears mingle with early morning. Unchecked. Only six miles from home. All of this.”
These Days of Living Small, 2026, ©
Speaks to a time of lethargy, anger, and hope during a stressful historical period in American history from one perspective.
“But our personal world was small at sixteen years. We were so naive about justice, happiness, and pain. About living. In our sixteenth year we earned our drivers’ licenses and lined up our first summer jobs. While others went to the New Jersey beaches to waitress, flirt with boys, and bathe in the sun, we worked the night shift, like our parents.”
Frannie, Memoir of a Friendship, 2024, ©
Illuminates a personally profound friendship and living through her tragic death while in 1970 told through prose and poetry. Sales supported an educational endowment in her name.
The Pandemic series, 2022-2024
“At a somewhat busy corner, restaurant delivery trucks and behemoth yellow school buses strain to turn right. Gears grind. Brakes scream. All this while navigating the somewhat suburban street that runs alongside our house. Within a few feet of this intermittent, daily mayhem there is a corner garden.”
Eden – At Home during a pandemic, 2023, ©
Reflections through prose and poetry of living through the world-wide pandemic from 2021-2023 in my small town.
All work is protected under United States Copyright Law. 2026.