Pink Lemonade

About the Book

A quintessential woman’s book, Pink Lemonade chronicles a six-decade journey through the arts, using the steppingstones of poetry, drawing, short stories and essays to navigate difficult pathways.

Along the way the author introduces us to some fascinating women, from shy Martha Brown, the Adams family laundress to Sister Stanisia, an accomplished artist/nun who doesn’t know where babies come from. Other characters potrayed are: Kara Winston, a young mother who finds the courage to return to college in an unlikely place; Ellie, an attractive, middle-aged divorcee undergoing sterilization; and Elizabeth, an older married women who is forced to let go of a loved one twice.

Divided into six chapters illustrated by the author, Pink Lemonade offers hope to anyone struggling with unexpressed feelings of sadness, powerlessness or anger. Samantha Adams demonstrates through her own experiences how the arts, especially those with spiritual underpinnings, enabled her to transform life’s tragedies into triumphs.

About the Author

Samantha Adams’ writing career began at age six when she first learned to print. Her specialty was short rhymes with crayon illustrations. Since that inauspicious but enthusiastic beginning, she has written and published poetry, essays, opinion/editorials, interviews, feature articles and humor pieces.

Putting herself through college as an adult, she won, among other things, the coveted Leone Graham Writing Scholarship at a Midwest women’s college. She majored in English and Communications and graduated with honors in 1986.

In the business world, Ms. Adams was most recently a director of marketing communications for a national trade association where she wrote public relations materials and speeches for the president/CEO.

Pink Lemonade, a narrated collection of poetry, essays, short stories and drawings, is her first book. She has recently completed a musical and is currently working on a humor book on starving artists.