poems, songs, essays, short stories, fables, recipes, commentaries
Image: My 8 Published Books – Photo by Linda Sue Grimes
January 10, 2026: Don’t depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don’t become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it. —Paramahansa Yogananda
The rooms within my literary home include my library/music room where I compose and maintain my original writings in poetry, songs, literary fiction, expository essays, and poem commentaries.
My literary home also includes rooms of tribute and memorials to beautiful souls who have graced my life and influenced my penchant for literary studies.
In addition to literary works, I dabble in vegan/vegetarian cooking, so I dedicate my kitchen to holding and presenting the recipes that result from my adventures in the culinary arts.
Because I remain spiritual-minded, I dedicate a temple/sanctuary to that spiritual inclination. Maya Shedd’s Temple holds personal musings about subjects that influence my life, especially my spiritual journey.
The following rooms will remain works in progress, as I continue to add to them from time to time.
- Poems
- Songs
- Short Literary Fiction
- Essays: On Political, Social, Literary, & Other Issues
- Essays: Poems with Commentaries
- My Books
- ~Maya Shedd’s Temple: My Spiritual Sanctuary~
- Veggie Recipes: My Culinary Journey
- Cowboy Poetry
- Life Sketches of Poets
One such room is an art gallery, featuring the paintings, as well as the prose renderings of the beautiful soul, Ron Grimes (Ron W. G., as he signs his paintings): Paintings and Prose. My sweet Ron has continued to bring out the poetry in my life for over half a century; our married life together began on March 10, 1973.
Ron Grimes (Ron W. G.): Paintings and Prose
My literary home also offers dedicated rooms to beautiful souls who have graced my life and influenced my literary studies.
- Malcolm M. Sedam Poetry Memorial
- Thomas Thornburg Poetry Memorial
- Daniel L. Wright Memorial: Shakespeare Authorship Studies
Also in my literary home, I dedicate another room—my kitchen—to the recipes that result from adventures in the experimental culinary arts.
I have been a vegetarian/vegan for most of my life, and thus I have found it necessary to revise or tweak most traditional recipes to accommodate my vegetarianism. So I am offering the results of that life journey.
Finally, I have dedicated a sanctuary for meditation, prayer, and worship, “Maya Shedd’s Temple.” Before I rebuilt this lit site as Linda’s Literary Home, I maintained much of the construction here under the title “Maya Shedd’s Temple: Literary Home of Linda Sue Grimes.”
In the temple, I place all things spiritual. I begin with a brief memoir explaining by reasons for following my spiritual path.
The temple includes information about Paramahansa Yogananda and commentaries on his poetic works, beginning with Songs of the Soul.
Guruji has explained that fallen humankind is under the spell of Maya or cosmic delusion. My goal is to lift that spell, thus “shed” the delusive veil of Maya: Maya Shedd.
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Image: Swami Park, Encinitas, CA – August 2019 – Photo by Ron W. G.
Linda Sue Grimes – November 1, 2025 – Photo by Ron W. G.
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