Book excerpt: "The Climb Up Life's Mountain" This is a book of poems written over the years through different challenges, problems, and losses. Pats feelings and thoughts come through in her words and expressions. One such loss was the devastating loss of her mother who was killed by a drunk driver. Her mother was forty five years of age. At the same time her father and young sister were critically injured. Then there were the sad losses of her sister and only brother to cancer. There were overwhelming business losses and personal problems. These life experiences are incorporated in her poetry. These one hundred twenty two poems were selected from over seven hundred poems she has written. Pat has had more than twenty five of her poems read at Memorial and Funeral Services. She is published in Poetry.Com and they have put some of her work on CDs. She has had a number of articles and poems published in the Realtoro Magazine, a real estate publication. Her poems have been used in Church Bulletins and published in a paper called Mountain Talk. Pat writes Personalized Poetry which tells about peoples lives, personal events as well as Patriotic, Political, Religious poems, motivational, inspirational, and poems on various other subjects. She has had thank you responses to her poems from the Queen of England, three different Presidents, one Presidents wife, the owner of a large clothing store chain, as well as other individuals.