Welcome to snudball.com!  “SNUD” was my mother’s nickname for me when I was younger than five. Now, it means Sharon Y. Ball. I’m a writer of poetry, essays, songs and stories. 

I am a professional Life-Cycle® Celebrant for end-of-life and healing ceremonies and a nontraditional (read ‘elderly’) college student trying to finish the undergraduate degree I abandoned 50 years ago. I’m a former broadcast journalist, former nonprofit arts executive; former singer, and an unsuccessful candidate for the NY State Senate in 2016.

I live in an upstate New York village with my photographer husband and my little grey cat. I have traveled across the US and lived for several years in Japan. I am a former colored Negro and current Black African American, thankful to all my ancestors known and unknown, pure blooded and mixed, who flow through and breathe within me. My greetings to you and thanks for stopping by my website. I hope you’ll follow my blog, too.

With gratitude, syb