Book excerpt: Words: bless them, curse them; but just try to get along without them. Freeing us from the painful limitations of our beings or revealing our substance, souls, joys and passions. Think about them, what other contrivance of man enjoys such tremendous power and impact? They are transformative: As we think, so we become. Another Place Entirely is the authors third volume of Poetry. Traveling to another time or gloriously engaged in the everyday the author once again explores: everything from colors to courage, cancer to clichs, the daring and displaced to Drama Queens, the loved to the lost and victims versus the victorious. Designed to make one think, the author again personalizes what appears so impersonal. Words are the vehicle whereby she transports and transforms her readers to different levels of thought and emotion. Be the topics simple, eclectic or humorous, here are souvenirs from my brainchild to yours, firing and lighting up the place with identification. Take a moment and retreat; you will not emerge the same.