Helen Kay Polaski, the seventh child in a family of sixteen children, never tires of telling the tales of her childhood. She resides in the beautiful state of Michigan and she has just fulfilled her fondest wish that her writing will one day touch the heart of others in a positive way. "Several of the stories within the book are from my own childhood and stomping grounds, and the child on the cover is standing on our family’s front porch," the writer says. "I have five additional anthologies in progress . They will all be Forget Me Knots books, but with different themes," she adds.

Forget Me Knots: From the Front Porch is an anthology of heartfelt stories from around the world - stories that will touch the readers’ hearts and make them start recalling their own childhood. The anthology starts with a gripping story about a the assassination of John Kennedy: "This afternoon President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas ,Texas…." There are memories of a troubled kid who lived in a trailer, a village boy’s problems and many other moving stories that are worth reading and thinking about them:

"It was then that I vowed to always find something beautiful to chase away the 'hates'."

"In those days, there were toys on the porch - a wagon, a tricycle, and a very important rocking horse with squeaky springs."