From Worries to Happiness #Poetry #TuesdayTidbit #Inspiration

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From Worries to Happiness

Copyright 2024 by Abbie Johnson Taylor

In the fall of 1988

when I first heard Bobby McFerrin

singing about not worrying and being happy,

I wanted to throw my radio out the window.

Between jobs, with no prospects,

unable to afford a place of my own,

compelled to live with my mother,

a lot worried me,

and I had no reason to be happy.

Now,

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https://abbiescorner.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/from-worries-to-happiness-poetry-tuesdaytidbit-inspiration/

*** Coming Soon

Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories

by Abbie Johnson Taylor

Synopsis

As defined in the first story, living vicariously means “living your life through someone else’s.” You’re invited to live vicariously through lives of characters in these stories: a lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun, a college student who identifies with a character in a play, a young woman who loses her mother and finds her father.

In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. These ordinary characters deal with everyday and not-so-everyday situations. The twenty-five stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how these and other conflicts are resolved or not.

Excerpt from Title Story

“Deception! Deception! Deception!” my wife Mandy cried, as she marched into my law office on a Friday afternoon in October and flopped into the chair across from my desk.

She reminded me of Amanda in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, who reacts the same way when she discovers her daughter lied to her. Mandy taught English and communications and directed plays at Sheridan College here in Wyoming. She’d produced The Glass Menagerie the previous year.

“I’m sorry,” my secretary said from the doorway. “I told her you were busy.”

“No problem, Lorraine,” I said. She backed out and closed the door.

“Okay, how did I deceive you?” I asked, turning to Mandy.

About the Author

Abbie Johnson Taylor has published three novels, two poetry collections, and a memoir. Her work has appeared in The Weekly Avocet, Magnets and Ladders,and other publications.

She is visually impaired and lives in Sheridan, Wyoming, with her robotic cat Joy, where she worked as a registered music therapist with nursing home residents and in other facilities. She also cared for her late husband, who was totally blind and suffered two paralyzing strokes after they were married. This is the subject of her memoir and many of her poems.

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