Keeper of the Night

This inspirational collection of poems comes from the author's past. The growing up years on the farm with its difficulties and its joys. Sadness at the deaths in the immediate family, and the hope that followed. Praise and thanksgiving for being so blessed with the journey. And now retirement by the sea; life is good.

Patsy McLaughlin grew up during the depression the youngest of 7, on a small family farm in Ohio. After college she married her military husband (David) and began a life on the move for the next 37 years. Living in France and Luxembourg, then crisscrossing the U.S. on their many assignments, they had three daughters: Lori, Beth and Amy. Patsy volunteered as a youth counselor for her church in Ohio and she became active in the church and communities in which they lived. At George Mason University she volunteered as a listener at The Listening Post. She was also a volunteer for the homeless while on assignment in the Washington, D.C. area. Now in her 80's she said she wrote this book in hopes of preserving for her family a tidbit of our past which is fading from memory.