Terry Robertson spent fifty years traveling the world through the printed page while being an administrative assistant, wife, small business owner, mother, caregiver. At last, she has put her fingers to the keyboard creating characters who live with her in the Chicago metro area and thrive on enthusiam, exhilaration, egg rolls, and eclairs.

A Grain of Sand is the Seed of a Thousand Blessings

A Grain of Sand is the Seed of a Thousand Blessings

A Grain of Sandy

Within a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand blessings.

An invitation to a reunion sets Sister Leokadia to reminiscing about the year when she was assigned to shepherd 25 high school seniors at St. Michael’s. She was grateful for the habit that hid her age. If the girls had known she was only four years older than they? It was the mid 1960’s when young women such as ingenuous Molly, dyslexic Hope and reticent Christine were navigating changing times for women and for the Catholic Church.

Perigon Parables

Does God seem more distant than ever before?

As you read and hear of wars, mass shootings and natural tragedies, do you wonder where God is?

With such worldwide stress, would God really be interested in our petty problems and desires? The true stories in this book are proof that God is so in love with each and every one of us that He is at work in every detail of our lives.

  • A car spinning out of control during rush hour on a busy roadway changes the life of a young woman trying to control her life and failing miserably.

  • A chance encounter on a train solves a problem before it surfaces in one woman’s life.

  • A fall on ice triggers events that weave through the life of one couple until their culmination forty years later.

Steel Matkas

The strength of our men is in their bodies. They are men of steel. Our strength is in our minds and hearts. We are the Steel Matkas.

In 1906, Marianna is walking the ship’s deck of the SS Merion seeking fresh air when she is assaulted. Matilda is the dolmetscher who translates for the doctors tending to the 1,700 immigrants sailing to America from all over Europe. Following different paths, both become pioneers in the expansion of the steel mill neighborhood of South Chicago in the twentieth century.

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A book titled 'Clarified' by Terry Robertson resting on a wooden surface near a potted plant with green leaves.

Clarified

Beauty lies in the broken spaces of Alzheimer’s.

Claire’s compassionate heart always reaches out to the suffering and grieving. When the stress of pastoral care overwhelms her, she can relax in the cocoon of her home which she shares with Tom, the love of her life. All is idyllic, until the tentacles of Alzheimer’s, a disease about which she knows little thrust their way into her life through Tom’s sister and begin to wrap around her love. Follow Claire as she learns that beauty lies in the broken spaces of Alzheimer’s.

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