Sarah Shepherd

Born in Boston. Raised in West Newton and Duxbury, MA. Educated at the Winsor School in Boston, Duke University, and University of MN for a BA in Spanish and an MA in English as a Second Language. In Minnesota, raised four children with former husband, Charles Silverson. Taught English as a Second Language at the University of MN, then worked with video design and production. Co-authored "Speak Easy", a video and book combination to teach English as a Second Language, published and distributed by BBC English by Television. Continued educational video production and publication for the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation, and later Image Premastering,  publishing medical teaching files in radiology and pathology with videodiscs. Moved to Massachusetts. Studied website design at Clark University, joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Resides in Braintree, MA with husband David A. Shepherd. Teaches piano and enjoys playing the piano at the Pat Roche Hospice Home in Hingham, MA.

The appeal of writing Haiku poetry is the enjoyment of condensing a large issue into three lines of text, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third line. This is pleasurable and therapeutic for me. Each poem triggers a memory or lesson to be learned. Each is a mental picture, with economy of words, to explain a great deal of information.