Felipe Adan Lerma

Evaluating the exact or changing meaning of the Constitution of the United States is not my intent in this work.

Eighty-four original poems, written between 1981 and 2014. Some never before published, and many others pulled from my various poetry collections of family, sports, arts, love, and places poems....

Rosetta and Arturo have been together for more than 30 years....

My wife Sheila and I spent 5 1/2 weeks in Paris late 2012, which has formed the setting basis for the Slumming in Paris novels, and these short stories....

Five short stories set in Texas, and featuring characters from all my current fiction work, are included in the first collection....

Over six dozen original poems about love...

A senior, an American artist, looking back on his life's development. At the same time, anticipating his first solo show, and waiting for his wife, Rosetta, to arrive....

But Family Poems is so extensive, with over one hundred original poems, in the variations for such relatively few categories, I felt the ability for the listener to "see" the full inside index of included titles, was essential....

Cherise, 16, on an extended between-the-holidays stay in Paris, gets to go out to her favorite small store on her own. Sorta....

The story continues with the children, and the adults having welcomed the arrival of their grandparents and small neighbor child, and the larger expanded family group venturing out into Paris together....

The story continues with the children and the adults having welcomed the arrival of their grandparents and small neighbor child....

Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety. Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love....

The children, and the adults having welcomed the arrival of their grandparents and small neighbor child, and the larger expanded family group venturing out into Paris together....

Six children, ages nine through "almost" 18, arrive in the City of Lights, Paris....

A five and a half week personal stay in Paris recently, added to a life long love affair with the City of Light, helped provide much of the inspiration for this first of three related Paris works....

Arthur and Gricinda, two of the children's parents, already having spent a romantic week alone in Paris, have received their arrival like flood gates at the ready....