Yellow Butterfly - Book of Poetry

My late daughter, Dorie, loved poetry, loved writing poetry, had a unique style for producing art and had a serious mental illness.  To honor her request that her poetry survive her I recently published a book of her poetry and art.  The poetry largely reflects her mental illness.  I wrote an introduction.  This is a powerful book, especially for families with someone in the family with a mental illness.  The book title is Yellow Butterfly taken from one of the poems in the book.

Biography of speaker: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.  Master in Urban Planning from Michigan State University.  City planning activities for 15 years with a private planning consulting firm and with public agencies, living and working in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Duluth and several cities in between.  Owner and manager of a small real estate investment company in Duluth for 28 years.  Active in the community serving on numerous non-profit, church and public boards, committees and commissions; served as chair or president of many of them.  Published Yellow Butterfly and a 650 page book on results of genealogy research on my family.  Prepared a 100 page study that went to the U of MN Board of Regents that led to opening Glensheen to the public.