THE BUMPS IN THE ROAD cover and description and dedication

© 2026 Marjorie J. Levine

This chapbook is a series of essays within a blending of personal memories 

of growing up and the author’s later real-life adult experiences.

All of the parts are framed within bends in the whispers

of life’s passages along the rocky roads of getting older.

Each vignette is crafted into a fabric of truth without

self-pity and mixes pathos within a reality of dark humor

to reach a point where the past moves to finally fall away.

And as decades advance, a strong, independent, confident

woman moves to her defined old age.

For my mother, who gave me nothing,

so I learned how to give myself almost everything.