Life in a Paper Bag

By Jillian Richards

"Are you somebody?"

I was asked again and again

in the glamorous city of angels,

Los Angeles.

Was I unseen as I was,

and seen

only for who I might be?

Life had been filled

with challenges

and change,

dangerous, glorious, absurd and terrifying.

Trained to conform,

I navigated

with well-practiced denial

and a good dose of Aussie humor.

A photograph

of my nose

was taken beside Charlton Heston.

Constantly surprised by life

I was humbled

by the courage of others.

I learned

that it is possible to love a fish.

Following a near death experience,

hundreds of cards

admonished me

that it was 'Time for me to look after myself,"

I thought I was.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951937635
• ISBN13: 9781951937638
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Epigraph Publishing
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"