Finally, Chris Pepple is publishing as a poet. She's inviting you into her conversations on healing, on change, on faith, on courage, on determination, on love, and on self-discovery. She shares her voice with readers as she gives us glimpses into the journey she has traveled on-a journey that has taken her through grief as she led the funeral for a relative who died from complications from AIDS, through pain as she struggled to free herself from domestic abuse, and through joy as she raised two courageous daughters who found their own voices. From her poem titled "Just Me," Chris writes: I'm a cream-soda drinking, chocolate-loving, veggie-eating kind of woman… I'm loud when I need to be, but when I'm silent, I still roar… I don't cling to the toxic, but toss it away and I stay undefinable in the world which craves easily expressed normality… … judge me not at all, for your approval is not what I seek, but join me on this winding journey to discover the path that leads to just me…