Author Archives: Susan

The backyard is alive with the happy chirping and flitting of mating birds.  No longer just streaking by left to right, right to left at all different altitudes, but up and down in a crashing of wings and back and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Friend Neha is coming over for lunch tomorrow, smarter now with a certificate to prove it.  Fresh from graduation at Seton Hill, on her way in fall to Baltimore to get smarter still.  Have to make a special lunch, or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last evening the door opens and my father-in-law is standing in the kitchen, supported beneath the arms by his son.  "Do we have a belt?" Jim asks me, "His pants are falling off."  He holds him steady in the doorway … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There sometimes comes a time in life, particularly of those who feel they’ve left no mark upon the world and faced with leaving it as such, turn round to even note their footprints washed away behind them. Where spurred by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Much to think about today, given yesterday’s revelation.   Or rather just facing life facts learned but not assimilated, because with the lantern of Diogenes, I had found an honest man.  I saw the incredulity and almost pity in his eyes, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Should have been a fast in and out, park right up front and scamper about dumping presents quick like the Easter Bunny.  Unusual number of cars in the lot for a week after semester closing.  I walk the near twenty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay, so I’m right.  I’ve been pronounced so by a judge.  But it doesn’t matter; it is time once again to give in because the costs mounting up are more harmful to me in the end.  In time, in health, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Me:  This is going on two years now.  The longer the house sale drags out the more we’re paying in expenses, taxes… My Attorney:  The taxes are prorated at the closing. Me:  Uh…to what–the day I think she should have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Gee, I hadn’t realized that Survivor Terry is from Simsbury, a couple towns over from us.  I’ve liked him from the start because he has been the most honest and hardest player in the challenges, and any finagling he’s done … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Seek and ye shall find… Randomly happening upon ideas that then refuse to let go.  Via GLH, I found Yi-Fu Tuan’s site, and a series of what he calls Letters to Colleagues that is a good place to park for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am in a unique position as picture framer and wannabe writer:  Surrounded by talent, visual and text, I can praise, inform, build up the confidence in those who need to go further, cajol them into taking those steps. An … Continue reading → Continue reading →