About
Carole Schossow was born in Maquoketa, Iowa. Carole was born into a loving, Christian family. Her father, mother, five sisters and three brothers have all preceded her in death.
Although she enjoyed a long career in the banking industry, Carole has enjoyed this mission of writing poetry at this stage of her life as, “icing on the cake”.
The love of her life, Pastor Lyle Schossow, now deceased, is the greatest inspiration for her writings. Lyle’s true commitment and service to God, and her commitment to God, as well, make this journey one of great passion for her.
God has given each of us a mission in life. It may not come until we are much older, as mine has, but I am so thankful to Him for this blessing.
As my late husband would say, “Keep the faith!”
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Carole’s poems took a different turn with the passing of her husband and the grief which she personally experienced. As God’s vessel her wish is to share her experience of God’s comforting presence to others who have also lost a loved one, assuring them that His comfort is there for them if they will only turn to Him.
