KATHIE OLSEN is a nonprofit executive, former newspaper columnist, adoring grandmother, defender of the planet (and those who inhabit it), and a novice gardener who happens to have a small farm.  She has written dozens of poems and short stories, and one novel (TAKE ME TO MERCY).  She and her husband spend summer and fall in southern Oregon and winter and spring on Martha's Vineyard.  This site is meant to showcase her writing, or, to put it another way, to showcase her heart.