My First Book

So, I wrote this book, out of a need... maybe a Florence Nightingale need to see people healed. I see so many people these days dependent on drugs. Drugs to wake up, drugs to go to sleep, drugs to calm down, to stay awake, for anxiousness, depression etc... But I know there is a better way. I put together these 77 poems addressing, really just everyday regular stuff that people go through, and the answers to those questions. The way to dig yourself out of the ditch. Order from any bookstore or go to www.KatherineNorlandPoetry.com there you can read excepts ( 1 from each chapter). It's meant to strengthen your faith and give you true hope!

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The baby that changed my life

Wow, so much has happened since I blogged last. I haven't written in the blogs, but I have been keeping up in my journal writing. It will probably be in a book sometime. I had a baby nearly 4 months early, he almost died a couple of times, it was pretty scary. My hubby has put a personal site together for the relatives so they could be updated. We just didn't have the energy to keep calling everyone for updates, it took all that we had just to stay in faith and pray for his health and healing everyday. If you want to find out more about his story you can check out www.myspace.com/timothyjohnnorland

He's been out of the hospital for 3 months now, and here is our first day at the beach.



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I'm reading one of my poems in Pasadena .

Twice a month they hold poetry readings there. This group is led by Don King-Fisher. (He is the one sitting at the table up front near me). He puts out a chap book every quarter. I've been published in several of them. He calls it the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. Yes, that's a mouthful.

This is a scene from a short film I did earlier this year. It's called "No Greater Love" The title and film is based on a scripture that says "No greater love hath any man than he lay down his life for his friend". Kathy and I wrote this film in the back seat of my little car on the way back from Las Vegas where we had our film "On The Fringe" playing at a film festival.

This is me with my friend Anthen. I met him at a poetry group a couple of years ago. He is a Rabbi, and a linguist, he speaks 7 languages and has lived all over the world.

He usually comes over every Wednesday and we work on poetry together. He actually edits my poetry, in the sense of looking for grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

He is really great. He's from Israel. And he loves animals.

Hey guys, this is a picture from a short theatre Noir piece I was in. We wore dress from the 40's, but we had little dances and there was singing. Lord knows I didn't sing, every one would run out. But they used the sound track from "West Side Story" and changed the words to go with the theme. I'm standing here with the antagonist 'Satanelli' the mob boss from down under if you know what I mean. The great lounge singer in the back ground. It was fun, we did 2 performances in July of 2007

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Whoo hooo

I now have a blog, just like you!