Ozzy loves music. Ozzy wants more than anything to be a musician. There's just one problem: Ozzy is a cricket. Can Ozzy find a way to connect with the other musicians in the orchestra, so they can play together? Written, narrated and produced by RubyAnn Stiegelmeier.
Half poetry chapbook, half mental health handbook, this is my first book of poetry.
Leather bound, softcover.
Summary:
You and I are in this together - different boats, same ocean. These poems are words of kindness for anyone on their way out of depression or grief (or both) and back to home within themselves. I wrote these for myself in moments over a fifteen-year period where I needed to hear support, and since I didn’t have it, I wrote what I needed to hear so I could repeat it out loud to myself. These were my answers, and I’ve been brave enough to title them “answers,” while your answers may be quite different. Please use this as a traveler’s guide while getting to know your own intuition. I’ve titled each poem with the question I was asking at the time when I wrote the poem, and arranged them to start in a place of struggle and end where I am writing from a place of feeling hopeful about life, confident in myself and comfortable in my skin.
To be clear, I am not “better.” It’s not “over.” The truth about my own struggles is that it is equal parts the storylines I was born into, the place society “affords” me as a woman, the reality of being a human living on a planet with seasons and storms and day/night cycles, with a hefty dose of my own existence as a learning mind and an occasionally reckless attitude.
Get all three books I've written - Maddy LeDoux Does the Impossible Thing, Sir Rupert and the Battle of the Squirrels, and Answers.
*'Maddy LeDoux' is in preorder status and will ship separately on January 31, 2026.
PREORDER - Signed copy of my first published novel, ships January 31, 2026.
Summary: In a last-ditch effort to salvage her mental health, Maddy LeDoux flies to Scotland, crossing paths with Micah Macgregor in a stroke of serendipity she’d given up hoping for after her ex-fiancé left her with a ramshackle house full of wedding decorations. Two weeks of dancing and hillwalking heal her heart, and when she returns home to North Dakota, Maddy makes a pact with herself: live like she did overseas for 90 days. At that point, if she doesn’t get relief from her diagnosis of treatment-resistant depression, she’ll move to either the Highlands or Heaven, if her un-angelic language doesn’t land her somewhere warmer.
Layers of her underlying religious trauma surface, though, along with new dents in her car after she collides with a handsome police officer. As her budding confidence, bold wardrobe changes, and new addiction to baking sticky toffee pudding brings her family’s controlling behavior to light, Maddy grapples with whether being her unfiltered self will keep Micah close or push him away. When an uncomfortable truth surfaces, testing her resolve to ride out the clock on her pact, Maddy is forced to answer the toughest question of all: when all you can control is yourself, how do you get what makes you happy?
Solo piano arrangement of Jay Ungar's classic tune. Perfect for intermediate piano students or hobbyists. Digital file sent after purchase.
Silent Night has been covered an infinite number of times, but when's the last time you heard it on piano - just piano - with the raw emotions of joy and awe and wonder pouring through? Here's your chance to learn this classic in a whole new way. Digital file sent after purchase
Get your own copy of this picture book that's captured the imaginations of hundreds of elementary students in North Dakota, and won recognition from the Library of Congress as a 2025 Great Reads from Great Places!
Bookstore owners: please contact me for wholesale orders!
Here's a little about the story: This book is a hilarious approach to creative problem solving, cooperation, and perseverance. Sir Rupert is a young person living in the castle, aspiring to become a "real" knight someday. He tries to help everyone he can to gain necessary knighthood experience. When his friend Bertha, the castle cook, comes to him one day asking for help with squirrels that have overrun the kitchen, Sir Rupert's skills are put to the test. He asks everyone he can find for help, but no one has practical advice, so he and his friends team up to tackle the problem on their own. This story draws on themes of asking for help, persevering no matter what, helping others in the face of adversity, and receiving approval for one's efforts even when things don't turn out the way you planned.
About the author and illustrator:
RubyAnn Stiegelmeier has been helping others for as long as she can remember. After her dad died when she was 11, her childhood on their family's farm became a bootcamp in creative problem solving. Writing became her way of trialing long-term strategies. As the proud aunt of 22 nieces and nephews, Sir Rupert and his many misadventures came to life from all the times she heard "auntie, tell us a story!"
Joe Duncan is a hillbilly artist from Kentucky and he's just excited to be here in this book with you right now. Joe sustains himself with a healthy diet of cartoons and sugary cereal to keep his mind sharp and his reflexes strong. He also has some dogs and a pretty cool kid.
Five compositions including solo piano and poetry, originally performed during lockdown in 2021 as part of The Fort Sessions.
Winner of Best New Filmmaker at the 2021 Spring Grove Caledonia Film Festival, this music video showcases the story of the four daughters of Hans and Lena Seim who immigrated to western South Dakota in the late 1800's.
Silent Night has been covered an infinite number of times, but when's the last time you heard it on piano - just piano - with the raw emotions of joy and awe and wonder pouring through? Here's your chance to learn this classic in a whole new way. Digital file sent after purchase
Solo piano arrangement of Jay Ungar's classic tune. Perfect for intermediate piano students or hobbyists. Digital file sent after purchase.
Get your own copy of this picture book that's captured the imaginations of hundreds of elementary students in North Dakota, and won recognition from the Library of Congress as a 2025 Great Reads from Great Places!
Get your own copy of this picture book that's captured the imaginations of hundreds of elementary students in North Dakota, and won recognition from the Library of Congress as a 2025 Great Reads from Great Places!
Bookstore owners: please contact me for wholesale orders!
Here's a little about the story: This book is a hilarious approach to creative problem solving, cooperation, and perseverance. Sir Rupert is a young person living in the castle, aspiring to become a "real" knight someday. He tries to help everyone he can to gain necessary knighthood experience. When his friend Bertha, the castle cook, comes to him one day asking for help with squirrels that have overrun the kitchen, Sir Rupert's skills are put to the test. He asks everyone he can find for help, but no one has practical advice, so he and his friends team up to tackle the problem on their own. This story draws on themes of asking for help, persevering no matter what, helping others in the face of adversity, and receiving approval for one's efforts even when things don't turn out the way you planned.
About the author and illustrator:
RubyAnn Stiegelmeier has been helping others for as long as she can remember. After her dad died when she was 11, her childhood on their family's farm became a bootcamp in creative problem solving. Writing became her way of trialing long-term strategies. As the proud aunt of 22 nieces and nephews, Sir Rupert and his many misadventures came to life from all the times she heard "auntie, tell us a story!"
Joe Duncan is a hillbilly artist from Kentucky and he's just excited to be here in this book with you right now. Joe sustains himself with a healthy diet of cartoons and sugary cereal to keep his mind sharp and his reflexes strong. He also has some dogs and a pretty cool kid.
Margaret Roberts is a local legend a hero in western North Dakota, best known for her determination as a widowed young mother raising five daughters alone while ranching and homesteading after her husband was murdered. This song honors her.
Selections from A Candlelit Evening.
