Watch this site for a new book written to help parents begin to talk to their little, grown and grand children about the tricky topic of sex. Now is the time to open that dialog whatever ages you may be, to make sure everyone has the good information they need to live a full, fun and safe life in the world of sexuality.  COMING SOON!! DMM

My memoir In the Lucky Spaces has been released on Amazon! It is a poignant, funny and moving account of a forty-one year career as a nurse caring for folks in a number of very different settings including hospitals, homes and a couple of dives into politics. The reviews have been amazing and I’m so looking forward to more feedback on this work. I hope you find it interesting and useful in finding your own lucky spaces.  DMM

Deb started writing at age twelve when a poem about a lamb, a real tear-jerker, won her a dictionary. She has continued to write poetry through the years as well as essays, short stories, children’s books, and has just completed her memoir, IN THE LUCKY SPACES–a nurse’s memoir.

Her years in nursing with children, new mothers, hospice families and older folks, as well as teaching, parish nursing and chaplaincy have contributed to a rich life serving to enliven and deepen her work. Volunteer work at the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Hospital has inspired a number of her children’s picture books.

Mrs. Manske is an active member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Six of her poems have appeared in the WFOP Calendars. Her poem “Jamming in the Monroe House Kitchen” appeared in the Bramble Literary Magazine, 2017 Fall issue and “The Kitchen is for Dancing” was in the Fall, 2018 one. Her poem, “Leave It On,” has been set to music by Fred Monthei, a Cape Cod musician. Most recently her poem “Our Daily Bread” is in the Bards Against Hunger chapbook being sold and read for the benefit of the hungry in SE Wisconsin this Spring.

Deb grew up on a farm in Iowa and raised two sons in Wisconsin. She writes from her cozy office a mile from Lake Michigan. Away from her desk, she travels and pretends to garden.