A Short Biography

I am known as “ArmyMom” on the Internet and have been published in a number of Veterans’ periodicals and magazines, newsletters and a newspaper in Texas.

My poems have been read at a number of ceremonies in the States over the last several years and are also used in schools - once as the basis for a play about Vietnam as the theme for a Veterans’ Day writing assignment in an elementary school.

My poem “Boots” was the front page in a book on “Remembering Veterans Of All Wars” in the Korean/Vietnam section.

I have had the honor to have read several of my poems at the Moving Wall when it was displayed in Tampa Bay, Florida in April 2001.

Most of my “war” poetry has been inspired by people I knew who started going to Vietnam in 1963 when I was 16, through to the end of the Vietnam war. Some were friends, some were boyfriends, and one was my husband - we divorced later.

The POW poems were mostly inspired by the man whose bracelet I wore
Major Jon Reynolds - and my imagination.

I also write poems about my son, Michael T. Ream, who is a Staff Sergeant in the Army. He has served in Somalia, Korea, Germany, and Bosnia. It sometimes seems that I have been sending care packages forever!

I’m married, live in Florida with husband, Scott, and two dogs and three cats, and am a legal secretary. I like to read and crochet and write letters and poetry. I’m researching my father’s service in China during WWII.

I can be contacted by e-Mail at
armymom@tampabay.rr.com

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