Welcome to Patty's Page. I hope you enjoy my books, music, photos, and articles. I know it is a little unorganized but that is because I keep adding new stuff! But now that I'm a little bit retired, I hope to give this a little more attention! So, please stop back now and then. I love to write and just released my newest book called A Runner's Reflections: A 100-Day Devotional for Those Who Love to Run, Walk, or Jog.  It is the fourth book in my Reflections Series that also includes  A Bird Lover's Reflections: A 90-day Devotional and Journal for People Who Love Birds, River Reflections: A 90-day Devotional and Journal for People Who Love the Water and Nature Reflections: A 90-day Devotional and Journal for People Who Love Nature. Am I done with this series? Who knows.   

I also have a series called River-Lations. The first book in the series, River-Lations: Inspirational Stories and Photos from the Thousand Islands is a collection of articles I wrote for the Thousand Islands Sun Newspaper along with some of the photos I have taken of the Thousand Islands. Several years (and columns) later, we released River-Lations Revisited: More Inspirational Stories and Photos from the Thousand Islands with over 30 new stories and pictures. We just released the third book in the series, appropriately named River-Lations, Three. I upped the number of stories in the newest book to 36! Am I done with this series?  Who knows! 

In 2010, I was the recipient of a national Amy Award for one of the articles that was included in the book ("Kayaking for Dummies"). You can read the Thousand Islands Sun's Press Release about the award.  I have also occasionally contributed to Thousand Islands Life.com including Songs in the Night which includes some of the sights and sounds of our Thousand Islands loons.

While I don't do it in public as much as I used to, I also love to sing and write music.  Some of my songs (now also available on my YouTube channel), include Come Into His Rest (set to my nature photography), You'll Soon Make All Things Right, Alpha & Omega, I Was There and Light of Love. I also uploaded a recording of my song, Psalm 130, that was recorded many years earlier at my college recital at Houghton College (thanks to Mary [Smith] Phillips and Connie Finney for your help!).  I also play keyboard and sing on the worship team at my church, the Syracuse Alliance Church on Midland Ave in Syracuse, New York. Check out the article recently done about our church in a local newspaper.

In my other (non-musical) life, I have worked in the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. I'm now mostly retired but still keep the departmental newsletter going for them.  But now more than ever I enjoy a number of other activies. In the summer, I'm always somewhere near the water. That includes the Thousand Islands.  I love to be outside jogging, kayaking, gardening, fishing, swimming, and taking pictures (check out my photography pages. During the long, cold winter months I keep busy by writing. Inspired by the magnificent splendor of God's creation, I enjoy composing and singing my own songs, as well as writing inspirational books and articles (click here to read one of my nature articles originally published in the Syracuse Good Newspaper). A few years ago we released a music video, River-Lations, which completed our Thousand Islands music video triology. You can even view our 3-minute movie trailer on YouTube.  We were thrilled to have River-Lations receive the highest possible 5-Dove rating from the Dove Foundation. If you love music and nature we think you will too!

In 2007, CSS Publishing Company released, A Good Paddling, inspired by some of my kayaking adventures (I never quite figured out why they put a canoe on the cover). Later that same year they released To Love, Honor, and OH BOY!, which is a book about love and marriage. 

In the past I have released a number of music CDs of my own songs.  The most recent was Wondrous Love (pictured above --note, I am the one on the right, not the left). I express some of my deepest thoughts and feelings in my songs and I love to be able to share them with others through my music. Here is one of the songs (mp3), "What Kind of Love is This?" to give you a small taste of the album. You can read the review in the Syracuse Post Standard. Several of the songs on this album are included in the River-Lations music DVD.  My previous album is The Treasure of Your Love (which includes the song, "I Was There" that was written for the victims of the hurricanes in 2005).  I was interviewed on WHMR radio where I talked about the making of this album.  

You will probably notice that many of my books, articles, and the DVD features Hoover, our "pet" chipmunk who also has his very own song featured on YouTube. For more information about this now world famous chipmunk, come visit him at his own web site.  After all the feedback we have gotten about our little friend, we felt that the least Gold-Mountain could do was to sponsor The Hoover Page, complete with pictures, chipmunk links and even his own feature film. 

A few years ago, I completed another CD that had a different focus from some of my other music.  Through several recent circumstances, I was reminded of some of the difficult times I have gone through in the past and how, as I went through them, I would find comfort by putting my thoughts and prayers into music.  The Lord brought me through each of those difficult times and, each time, He put a song on my heart. In Out of the Depths I share 10 of those songs with the hope that they will bring comfort and encouragement to others who are suffering and who need a quiet reminder that they need not go through it alone.  The title comes from Psalm 130 (this is one of the cuts on the album)- "Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD...put your hope in the LORD,  for with the LORD is unfailing love”  (Ps. 130:1,7). If you, or someone you know, is hurting I pray the words and music on this album will truly help you find your way out of the depths.

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The Love of my life

The Lord of my life