Beatrice Bollinger Lotz (Bea Lotz)... was born in the year 1934, in a small corner of Elizabeth, N.J. The child of a broken marriage in an age when such was a social oddity, she was raised by a mixed assortment of relatives including a Welsh Grandfather who was a former one room school teacher, poet and founder of a Shakespearean Theatre Group in rural Pennsylvania, a school principal Aunt who traveled alone throughout Russia shortly after the revolution and was “liberated” before the term was coined and a poet Mother. These influences resulted in Beas many creative careers in theatre, art and writing. Her proudest achievement however has been wife and mother, which is reflected in much of the verse she writes. “Children are the poems of their parents, they sing our song long after we’re gone”. The echoes of this Toronto poet, whose work is regularly printed in the Wellington times. Old fashioned, out of step with contemporary verse she follows her own drummer, preferring touching he