My poetry began in the late 1980s. Some of my ideas came from my life as a nun for 7 years at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho and my struggles of entering and leaving religious life. Many of my ideas are born from books, from other people, from depression, from delight, from nature and from every opportunism I can think of. "Every poem is the autobiography of the emotion." Stanley Plumly "Michele uses her talent of words to share her own inner-self through the words of her poems. Some will be heartbreaking truth of the trials she has gone through and others will display her love for life and how she sees the world through her own eyes and with her kind and most caring heart. Michele also touches her darker side in words about her struggle with depression. I ask as you travel down the road of her story written in between these lines of poems that you will grow to love her work and her." Poet Jeniann Bowers