By Wendy K. Mages 

Trudging familiar streets, cement sidewalks hard underfoot, cars whizz past. Glancing down, lilies of the valley surprise, beckon. Were these little jewels here when last you walked this way? As little ivory bells bloom among emerald leaves, hope blossoms. On an ordinary day, on an ordinary road, secret treasures abound.

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Wendy K. Mages, a Mercy University Professor, is a Pushcart Prize nominee and an award-winning poet and author. She earned her doctorate in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her master’s in Theatre at Northwestern University. As complement to her research, she performs at storytelling events and festivals in the US and abroad. To learn more about her and her work, and to find links to her published stories and poetry, please visit her Mercy University Faculty page https://www.mercy.edu/directory/wendy-mages and her website, Wendy Mages: Storyteller https://sites.google.com/view/wendy-mages-storyteller