Tiny Little Cracks:Powerful Poems for Your Pocket Collection: Post-Pandemic Predicaments

By Dr. Carol J. Graham

As the pandemic lessened its grip on the world, we have all been living through an extraordinary time in history. The start of Putin's brutal war on its peaceful Ukrainian neighbor, the devastating Gaza conflict, soaring inflation due in large part to inefficiencies created by the pandemic, dramatic increases in interest rates to combat the

• Language: English
• Publisher: Staghorn Ridge Publications
• Release date: Apr 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9780986158872

Dr. Carol J. Graham

Dr. Carol Graham is a National Board Certified Reading and Language Arts Teacher Specialist. She is an elementary teacher and principal who lives in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. As principal and a teacher at Hometown Elementary School, her leadership and experience spirited Hometown Elementary School to be recognized at the state and national levels. As a teacher, her students achieved acclaim as finalists in a National NASA Competition and received several National STEM awards. As principal, Hometown Elementary was selected as a National Green Ribbon School, National Title I School, West Virginia School of Excellence and a West Virginia Distinguished School during her tenure. Beautiful Echo Ranch, near Kalispell, Montana, provided many childhood and young adult experiences for Dr. Graham. She fondly remembers riding her registered quarter horse, "Whimper Duke," many miles throughout the open range herding cattle. Later, she attended Montana State University to attain her degree in teaching. As a teacher in Idaho, her interactions with the children and teachers of the state, as well as her wealth of experiences from the state of West Virginia, provide the setting and backdrop for many of Dr. Graham's stories, illustrations and poems.

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Tiny Little Cracks

Powerful Poems for Your Pocket Collection:

Post-Pandemic Predicaments

by Dr. Carol Graham

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Copyright © 2024 by Dr. Carol Graham

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First edition published February 2024

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Library of Congress Control Number: 2024900018

ISBN-13: 978-0-9861588-6-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-9861588-7-2 (e-book)

Cover Photograph: Taken by Mario Tama of the January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington DC, which was a protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. The photo was displayed at the National Archives after blurring signs critical of Trump or that might be offensive. The National Archives later apologized for making the alterations and replaced the modified photograph with the original version, which was also used on the cover of this book. The back cover highlights two of the altered signs from the altered photograph.

Dr. Carol Graham is a National Board-Certified Reading and Language Arts Teacher Specialist. She is an elementary, middle school, high school teacher, and principal. She has worked as a teacher and principal for several decades in West Virginia.

As principal and teacher at Hometown Elementary School in West Virginia, her leadership and experience spirited Hometown Elementary School to be recognized at the state and national levels. As a teacher, Dr. Carol Graham’s students achieved acclaim as finalists in a National NASA Competition and received several National STEM awards. During her tenure as principal, Hometown Elementary was selected as a National Green Ribbon School, a West Virginia State and National Title I Distinguished School, and a West Virginia School of Excellence. In addition, Hometown Elementary was selected as a winner in a national competition of the Washington, DC Kennedy Center for the Arts.

Beautiful Echo Ranch, near Kalispell, Montana, provided many childhood and young adult experiences for Dr. Carol Graham. She fondly remembers riding her registered quarter horse, Whimper Duke, many miles throughout the open range herding cattle. Later, she attended Montana State University to attain her Bachelor’s Degree in Teaching, Master’s Degree in Administration, and Doctorate at West Virginia University.

Currently, Dr. Carol Graham teaches in the state of Idaho. Idaho has provided numerous additional interactions with students, parents, principals, and administrators. Dr. Carol Graham continues to work as a teacher and administrator consultant throughout the United States, providing her education expertise and experience. These opportunities, in addition to her wealth of experiences in West Virginia and Montana, provide the settings and backgrounds for her Poetry Book Collection, Children’s books, and Illustrations.

Contents

Tiny Little Cracks

No Record Kept

Lockdown Life

Afghanistan Asylum

Baby Formula Backlash

The First Black Woman Vice President

Ketanji Brown

Women On the Run

Two in Tow

Hearings

Trump’s Hissy Fit

The Trump Coup

Complete Nonsense

Treacherous Team

Twice Impeached Insult

Failed General

American Carnage

Twitter Whistleblower

Regrets Resound

Shocking Shootings

The Medal of Freedom?

One Hundred Eighty-Seven Minutes

Difficult to Watch

Did You Know

And Another

No Conflict Here

Meet and Greet the