About

Celebrating my 18th Year on the internet at reggiemorrisey.com

Wish I could say I had it all planned. I simply must write. One day follows another, and I write. 

Since 2008, I have introduced my poems (in a Poetry Reading Room and Listening Booth on this websitehttps://www.reggiemorrisey.com and followed up with short stories and nonfiction essays. In 2015, I started posting blogs—about 10 per year into 2021 (counting 60,000 + words) and continuing with posts about eBooks I self-published. 

Personal Life

Bill Bryson points out in A Short History of Nearly Everything, individual human existence is dicey. So much has to go right from just about the beginning of time for our ancestors to make it to us. As the sixth child in my family born in the mid-20th Century, it is surprising I arrived and survived.

I earned a master's degree from St. John's University and a bachelor's degree from St. Thomas Aquinas College, both in my native New York. For a time, I raised two great daughters as a single mom in New York and in California. I admire the terrific guys in their lives and delight in two grandkids. I savor my 35th year of a shared creative life with artist Vincent Mancuso.  A juried member of the Pastel Society of America, for 10 years he taught classes in painting with pastels at the Morean Art Center in Saint Petersburg, Florida.  Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, Florida, held a retrospective exhibit in 2019 marking Vincent's quarter century of creating paintings that reflect the city's architecture and natural beauty. See Vincent Mancuso Fine Art America.

Art on This Site Is Family

See Gallery of Vincent Mancuso.

My big brother Ed, who died in 2009, mastered sketching and painting and sculpting with diverse materials—from bronze to Utah canyon rock to wire for statues that cast shadows of animals and birds. We were close at heart. In the 1990s, Ed created a life-size plaster statue of a forearm and hand with the "Thumbs up" sign as a gift—this because I encouraged him. He adorned the statue with colorful telephone wire signifying our coast-to-coast phone relationship. (See the Gallery of Ed Morrisey Art. Click In the Service of the King and read about his encounter with an injured monarch butterfly.

Career in News, Magazines, Script-Writing and Technical Writing

My career – prior to retirement from Corporate Communications at Raymond James Financial and a career in technical writing – I wrote articles about life in Westchester and Connecticut for The New York Times (See NYT online Archives.); worked as a staff writer for Gannett newspapers; Wrote feature articles (and poems) for Westchester, Fairfield, County Life and Money magazines; served as scriptwriter of the 12-part U.S. Modern American History video series From Cold War to Hostage Crisis: 1945-1981; and was primary author Westchester County: The Golden Apple of New York. 

Bottom Line: My favorite quote by science/science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov: When asked what he'd do if told he had only six months to live, said, "Type faster." Me, too. 

I am on Instagram: Of Two Minds2  Goodreads  LinkedIn  Bluesky

Explore My Website

Check the links to writings  you can find here and published on Amazon:

• Open Blog for reflections on life, art and literature:
     Thoughts on the fiction eBook The Monks of Malibu
     Notes on the eBook serial sci-fi quartet Future Schmaltz
• Click a new 2025 page, Books, Books and More Books.
• Click to take a spin in Essays: Boom.
• Spend time in the Listening Booth to hear recorded poems.
• Select the Poetry Reading Room to read works spanning decades.
• Learn the latest scoop at Reggie Morrisey Newsletters.
• Read an array of quick fiction picks on the Short Stories page.
• View sketches and paintings in Sketchy, Gallery of Vincent Mancuso Art and Gallery of Ed Morrisey Art.
• Share your thoughts via options listed on my Contact page.

Offsite

Visit Apple Books, Kobu, Smashwords or Amazon to download my attractively priced eBooks.

• Check out reviews of  Flights of Fancy and its sequel Gossamer Wings at The Reading Cafe.
• Find the Portobello Book Blog #321 Author Interview from "across the pond" a quick read about Gossamer Wings posted.  
• Read my February 2025 author interview on Night Beats Extended Universe about writing Flights of Fancy.
• As recommended by book blogger Sarah G. of the Reading Nook says, "get a cuppa" and read my author interview about writing The Monks of Malibu.
• Consider leaving a review on Goodreads.  
• Follow me: OfTwoMinds2 on Instagram.  

Poetry and Short Story Collections

• Shades of Coffee Pot Bayou: Unpublished collection of fictional short stories about people I suppose live, will live — or want to live — in the mansions of a Florida bayou
• Of Two Minds: A collection of my poems and the paintings of my husband, artist Vincent Mancuso. Visit Blurb.com to preview a portion of this 56-page book
• Working Stiffs : Unpublished collection of short stories about working stiffs—literally and figuratively
• Careening with Nature: Mostly unpublished poetry depicting American life in my time.