Family Matters Poems of Our Families

Ann Smith grew up in a large, extended Italian-American family in Mingo Junction, Ohio. The family gathered around food. She now lives in Huron, Ohio, with her husband Larry. They have three grown children and four grandchildren and one grandchildren due by the publication of this book. Dr. Smith is a retired Professor from Medical University of Ohio in Toledo. She is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Mental Health Nursing and provides family counseling in the Behavioral Medicine Department of Firelands Regional Medical Center. She also provides counseling, Therapeutic Touch, and Reiki at the Reiki and Counseling Center in Sandusky, Ohio. She has written several articles on family relationships in those families experiencing chronic pain and is currently researching the effects of Therapeutic Touch on arthritis of the knee.Smith, Ann is the author of 'Family Matters Poems of Our Families', published 2005 under ISBN 9780933087958 and ISBN 0933087950.