My 2012 Nature Calendar includes my 13 best photos from 2011.

What would you do for $35,000,000?
Jessi Bell once daydreamed about all the things she would buy with $1,000,000, but after... More > spending her last dollar on a chance to win $35,000,000, she loses the lottery ticket. When the winning numbers are announced and she believes she has won the jackpot, Jessi sets off on a wild ride to recover the missing ticket.

During her quest, she meets an aardvark with muscle car envy, a truck stop waitress serving more than biscuits and coffee, and a former chef with a cocaine habit who sends her into the back roads of North Carolina.

Did Jessi lose her lottery ticket in Nick's Mustang? Will Jessi get to the ticket before anyone else cashes it in? Will her best friend Irene save her from being sold into the sex slave trade? After the truth is revealed, will Jessi still be a winner? < Less

Mary Elizabeth Thompson is a writer and artist who sees the world through a sensitive lens and captures its simultaneous... More > bliss and heartache in any medium she employs. Her poetry is raw and sensual, filled with provocative images and sharp language meant to snatch the audience from its complacency by the throat and say, "Feel this." Nothing is hidden in these pages; everything is shown. Delving through the full spectrum of human feeling from frustration to ecstasy, the selected poems in Domesticated Animus take the reader on an emotional journey through the author's experience of her world. < Less

My 13 best photos from 2010

13 photographs (including cover) taken by Mary Elizabeth Thompson in the Northern Virginia area.

A 12 month 2009 calendar featuring 13 (including cover) beautiful nature photographs taken in the Northern Virginia area by Mary Elizabeth Thompson

A log book with space to track one's food intake and exercise each day across 2 pages.

A one-page-per-day log book for tracking gym workouts.

What would you do for $35,000,000?
Jessi Bell once daydreamed about all the things she would buy with $1,000,000, but after... More > spending her last dollar on a chance to win $35,000,000, she loses the lottery ticket. When the winning numbers are announced and she believes she has won the jackpot, Jessi sets off on a wild ride to recover the missing ticket.

During her quest, she meets an aardvark with muscle car envy, a truck stop waitress serving more than biscuits and coffee, and a former chef with a cocaine habit who sends her into the back roads of North Carolina.

Did Jessi lose her lottery ticket in Nick's Mustang? Will Jessi get to the ticket before anyone else cashes it in? Will her best friend Irene save her from being sold into the sex slave trade? After the truth is revealed, will Jessi still be a winner? < Less

Mary Elizabeth Thompson is a writer and artist who sees the world through a sensitive lens and captures its simultaneous... More > bliss and heartache in any medium she employs. Her poetry is raw and sensual, filled with provocative images and sharp language meant to snatch the audience from its complacency by the throat and say, “Feel this.” Nothing is hidden in these pages; everything is shown. Delving through the full spectrum of human feeling from frustration to ecstasy, the selected poems in Domesticated Animus take the reader on an emotional journey through the author’s experience of her world. < Less