April 10th is National Sibling Day, and I love a day to remember and celebrate our siblings! I have three, a sister and a brother who live in Oregon with their beautiful families. And our beautiful sister who left us too soon for heavenly spaces. Her name is Linda – our mom called her Lulubelle. She liked to write, and left behind notebooks filled with her favorite form of poetry, Haiku. April is her birthday month (she shared that with our mom) and I thought it fitting that April also boasts Sibling Day and Haiku Poetry Day. Here is a Haiku I wrote for Linda. The first Haiku I wrote on the night she died. The second Haiku I wrote to celebrate her birthday, April 4th.
A strawberry moon
My sister in sweet repose
Teary last goodbyes
Never far from mind
An angel now in white clouds
Happy birthday wishes
~Rebecca DeMarino, trying to write Haiku like her sister taught her.
Happy Sibling Day to all who celebrate! Happy birthday dear Linda!
Also in April, celebrating the release for Piper Huguley’s American Daughters!
Congratulations to Author Piper Huguley on release day for her latest novel, American Daughters! My copy is arriving on April 2nd (release day!) I was especially drawn to this novel after reading By Her Own Design – I loved that story! Huguley’s novel recreates the life and legacy of Anne Lowe, through passionate research about the dressmaker who would design Jackie Kennedy’s famous wedding dress, yet her name is absent from the historical accounts. I was also drawn to American Daughters because it has been compared to America’s First Daughter – a book I also enjoyed!
“In the vein of America’s First Daughter, Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T. Washington and President Teddy Roosevelt.
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women—separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen—forged a lifelong friendship.”
This is biographical fiction that I so enjoy and celebrate! To read more about Piper Huguley’s novel and to order your copy, click here.
I love this author’s passionate research and her stories of courage and hope.
Love, Rebecca
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14