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    • Upcoming Events
  • Happy Customers
  • Our Books
    • Children's Picture Books >
      • Aunt Louise Comes to Visit
      • Chesapeake Bay Adventures
      • Feast of Memories
      • "Glad To Do It"© Series >
        • Uncle Rocky, Fireman >
          • #1 Fire!
          • #1 Fuego (Spanish)
          • #1 Fire! Coloring and Activity Book
          • #2 Something's missing
          • #3 Sparkys Rescue
          • #4 Sparky Protects
          • #5 Picnic
          • #6 Face Mask - A Story of Color
          • #7 Safe at Home
          • #7AA Safe at Home (Story of Color)
          • The Adventures of Uncle Rocky
          • Las Aventuras del tio Rocky el bombero
        • Officer Jack >
          • #1 Lost Lady
          • #2 Underwater
          • #3 Rapid Response
          • #4 Stolen Puppy
        • EMT Morales >
          • #1 Clamshell Stretcher
          • #2 Comfort Bear
      • Just Me
      • Little Me
      • Little Willie Wampel
      • Pete and Petey
      • The Potts-Abilities Series
      • Steve and Stevie
      • Who Wants A Cookie?
      • Why Does Santa Claus Go Ho Ho Ho?
    • Family/Personal History >
      • A Box of Stuff
      • DC Police Stories
      • DC Police Stories 2
    • Christmas RAPPing
    • "Heroes of the Coast Guard" Series
    • Poetry >
      • Becky's Poems
      • Counting To 17
      • Four Corners of Depression
      • Francis E. W. Harper
      • God's Love - Easter Poems
      • I Can Hear You Better WIth My Glases On!
      • Men of Old
      • Senior Year
      • Sparks Fly Upward
      • The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow
      • Twilight to Son Shine
      • Work is a 4-Letter Word
    • Religious Devotional >
      • Breathe
      • Born Without a Brain
      • Except the Lord Build the House
      • Jewels in my Journey
      • Prayer Journal
      • Sermon Tidbits
      • The Episcotape Letters
      • The Gospel Jesus Brought
      • The Seduction of the Episcopal Church
      • These Things Will They Do Unto You
      • You've Got Your Hands Full
    • Poppa's Pics
  • Our Authors
    • Nan Baker
    • Benjamin and Anne Brewster
    • James (Jim) Burd Brewster
    • Katie Spivey Brewster
    • Brenda Clayburn
    • Liz Cooper
    • Rebecca Stanley Crowder
    • Robert Stowe England
    • Cindy Freland
    • Frank Garland
    • Evan Giddings
    • Richard I. Gold
    • Randy & Cheryl Heddings
    • Brad Hutt
    • Marco Kittrell
    • Mike Massey
    • Jim McDonald
    • Ed Patterson McNamara
    • Rebecca Hardison Smith
    • A.E. Peremel
    • Jacob Phillips
    • Dave Stant
    • Mildred Stokes
    • David W. Virtue
    • Cassandra Crowder Wallace
    • Joan Curtis Waters
    • Margaret Willingham
  • Our Illustrators
    • Mary Barrows
    • Dayna Barley-Cohrs
    • Sergio Drumond
    • Matthew Melillo
  • Contact Us
  • Somewhere Over the Gay Rainbow Lies the Truth

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Jim McDonald was raised on a tobacco farm in Southern Maryland which he hated then but would give his eyeteeth for now.  A High School marriage, two boys, sex, drinking, drugs, and three wives later found him at age 35 out of jail, and recovering his soul and his maturity.  He planned to not be like his father and ended up like him.  His constant source of love and affection in all of this was his mother.    
I've wanted to write stories and poetry for decades. Now, that I'm a disabled/retired carpenter, I have time to devote to this passion.  But would I?
     Then a question I read on line challenged with, “If you knew, no one was going to read your work, would you still write it?”  Thought about the question for days, then I realized, “Of course I would.”
     With this book I begin the early release program for all the stories and poems incarcerated in my one celled brain.  They need their freedom and will benefit from breathing the outside air.

Jim "The Houseboat Poet" McDonald

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Twilight to Son Shine
 The poems in Twilight to Son Shine walk us along his path from hatred to despair to love and then acceptance.
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"Jim, the books we purchased are quite worn now. Our boys really like them. They were impressed that we "actually" knew you. I will gladly review your new book....is it okay if I read it to the boys? Again, thanks for writing the books. Our older boys have ADHD and learning disabilities and your books kept their attention."       

​- - Cheryl Carter

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