Time Measured Out!: Navigating Life's Journey Through Poetry

Time moves forward, relentless and gentle, marking our days with invisible ink.

In Time Measured Out!: Navigating Life's Journey Through Poetry, award-winning poet Larada Horner-Miller explores humanity's most complex relationship—our dance with time itself.

From Harrowing History to Healing Highways

This collection spans the breadth of human experience, from the collective trauma of 9/11's devastating morning to the quiet joy of RV adventures across sun-soaked desert landscapes. Horner-Miller doesn't shy away from difficulty—she transforms it into poetry that helps us process our own complicated relationships with time.

Seven Decades of Wisdom, Honest as Breath

With seven decades of lived experience and three dozen years of recovery, Horner-Miller writes with the authority of someone who has survived, thrived, and learned that time is both gift and teacher. These poems don't offer easy answers—they offer something better: honest companionship through the questions we all carry.

What makes Time Measured Out! extraordinary:

Raw Emotional Truth: No sugar-coating, no pretense—just authentic reflections on love, loss, joy, grief, wonder, and grace as they actually feel, not as we wish they felt.

Resilience in Verse: Each poem carries the quiet strength of someone who has weathered storms and emerged not just intact, but transformed.

Self-Reinvention Celebrated: These verses prove it's never too late to become who you were meant to be, to start again, to rewrite your relationship with time.

Healing as Process: Recovery—from trauma, addiction, loss—isn't portrayed as destination but as ongoing journey, and these poems honor that truth.

Ordinary Moments Illuminated: The magic isn't always in grand gestures but in noticing a sunrise, a conversation, a breath—and Horner-Miller helps us see it.

The Second Book in a Transformative Journey

Book #2 in the celebrated Navigating Life's Journey Through Poetry series, Time Measured Out! builds on the foundation laid in Was It a Dream? (2025 Global Book Awards Bronze Medalist) while standing powerfully on its own.

This collection is for you if:

• You're navigating grief or loss
• You're questioning how to spend your remaining time
• You're in recovery (from anything)
• You're seeking poetry that feels like truth
• You need reminders that you're not alone
• You want to treasure moments before they slip away

Pull up a chair to Larada's kitchen table. Let her share decades of wisdom through verse that will make you feel seen, understood, and hopeful about the time you have left.

Because in the end, we don't measure time—time measures us. But poetry helps us make sense of the counting.