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Pat Stanford

Pat Stanford was born in Philadelphia. Her farming family moved to Florida, looking for year-round growing seasons when she was one. She lived there until a brief stint in the Air Force took her to California.

"Fixing Boo Boo" is a gold medal winner for Florida non-fiction in the 2017 F.A.P.A. President's Book Awards. It is about what happens when a brain-injured sibling comes to live with a sister who doesn’t know what that means. It was re-released as a second edition in 2019.

"Proverbs of My Seasons; Poetry of Transition" was released in February 2019, and won gold medals in both the Poetry category as well as in Cover Design at the 2019 F.A.P.A. President's Book Awards.

"A Motley Miscellany; Misfit Poems That Fit Together" was released in September 2020 and won gold for both cover design and cookbook due to the last section with pie recipes and poems about them.

She served as President of the local rose society and is a bronze medal recipient with the American Rose Society, is Past President of the Tallahassee Writers Association as well as Past President of The Florida Authors and Publishers Association.

Pat lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband, a rambunctious puppy, and is currently working on a second non-fiction and a book of short stories.

Proverbs of All Seasons by Pat Stanford

Proverbs of All Seasons

ISBN: 9781937801984 (pbk)
ASIN: B07NCH11HV

Pat Stanford’s poetry is a collection of the many topics and events that naturally occur in a person’s life. There is a road travelled that is not necessarily a straight and easy one, which weaves through the seasons of life. Her reflections are shared with you, the reader. A connection to be made? Or perhaps just a reflection of your own life made easier to visualize. Some are raw emotions, and some are written tongue-in-cheek; some are about the turbulence of youth written with a youthful perspective, and some show a more mature person. Some will make an immediate connection, and some may need to be read again.

The author meditates on love, friendship, nature, religion, personal identity, poetry in general, and some seriously fun things. While there are no erotic love poems, there are a few that might make you think this poet has had nothing but unhappy relationships, but that is not the case. Many of the poems are observations of other people at a park or the mall, and how they seem to relate to each other. Same holds true for the friendship poems – half seem to be from someone who lost their best friend, and that is just the observation of how friendships can go. Nature is observed in its many seasons from stormy summer weather to winter snow.

Since poems that are rhymed and in quatrains are what she cut her teeth on, Pat wrote most of the poems are in that style, but she takes a stab at a few other styles as well. I hope you will enjoy the journey.

Unfortunately, for well over a decade, the military and VA has had a policy of treating combat related stress problems with psychiatric medications, which have a host of Black Box side effects, including suicide, homicide, anger, hostility, poor judgment, etc. Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) is a normal human reaction to what can be considered abnormal situations. The 'D' (Disorder) is added to PTS when the soldier or veteran can't return to normal functioning.

Fixing Boo Boo, 2nd Edition by Pat Stanford

Fixing Boo Boo

ISBN: 9781950075089 (pbk)
ASIN: B07VX95SQX

All Barb really wanted was to be treated like everyone else. All the family wanted was for her to be safe and well cared for, especially after a life-changing accident that left her brain-injured. After her husband died, she needed assistance to cope with daily meals and chores. Her sister and brother-in-law encouraged her to sell her house and come live with them. They had no idea what dealing with brain injury meant. They found out!

A Motley Miscellany by Pat Stanford

A Motley Miscellany

ISBN: 9781950075201 (pbk)
ASIN: B08GJ8YMNG

Whether it is observations during Poetry Month during the pandemic, stories in song, reflections on pets, both real and synthetic, having her mother’s poems finally published, or having the word “poetry” misspelled “pietry” turned into a fun section on pies, this volume of misfit poems is sure to have something for everyone. The recipes and poems by people mostly not known as poets is worth the price of admission by itself!

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