The Butterfly Net is a tapestry of poetry written between 1996-2007. The topics span from the blood-covered battlefields of the civil war, the era of the bubonic plaque in Venice, and then chronicle the stages of life from childhood, through college and adulthood. There is also poetry about the beauty of nature and everyday life. "I live by this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."