Three themes are contained inside this book, knitted together by the overarching theme, Impressions. Impressions of writing, of reading, of nature and of personal things that are universal at the same time. Above all, it is a collection of poems, each one an impression by a poet, and of the poet herself.

Like most people, I go through changes and different paradigms in my life. It is dealing with these paradigms that seems the biggest challenge life has to throw at me. In the end I have no control over what happens to me, only what I can make happen. What I try to reach for in my poems, is the answer to the question: Why and how to live?

There is nothing else to add to the preface, only that life is something precious we sometimes forget we have simply because we never lose it while we are al...

"sweet love under my skin."