Miss Holly, Mary's physical therapist who helped her to recover from paralytic polio when she was just five years old, beginning in 1959, would read Dr. Seuss to Mary before every painful physical therapy session. As she would coax muscles and nerves back to health, she would have Mary join her in reciting The Cat In The Hat, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who or one of the selections Mary would make in the waiting room of her rehab physician's office.

In December 2006, life as Mary McManus had come to know it came to a screeching halt. She was diagnosed with post polio syndrome at Spaulding Rehab's International Rehab Center for Polio. But out of the pain, weakness, fatigue and an uncertain future, Mary discovered the gift of poetry in her soul. She returned to the cadence of Dr. Seuss to heal her life a second time only this time, she was the one holding the pen. As she wrote New World Greetings:Inspirational Poetry and Musings for a New World, she felt as though she were taking dictation; that the messages of love, hope, healing, urging people to move beyond limited thinking and feelings of lack and limitation were flowing through her at warp speed. Curl up with Mary's book of inspirational poetry.  Enter a new world overflowing with healing, love, joy, peace and whimsy.

The poems in New World Greetings:Inspirational Poetry and Musings for a New World take you through Mary's journey of transformation. These poems overflowing with positive intentions and messages of hope and healing inspired Mary to heal mind, body and spirit and fueled her journey from post polio patient to Boston Marathon Finisher!

So come take a journey and feel the love of the Divine. Travel to places in your heart and mind and leave all of your worries behind. Read the inspiring words from the heart of a true survivor; of a woman who refused to give up despite the mountain which loomed ahead. Read the poems which helped Mary to take the first steps on her healing journey.

***COMING SOON*** Songs of Freedom:Poems From a Healing Odyssey with revised poems from her previous books and new poems inspired by her journey on the yoga mat and KMI Body Work.