Author Archives: Susan

TECHNOLOGY: Equipment

Posted on March 31, 2005 by Susan

Modification of machinery:  A quarter-inch balsa wood strip taped to a paper guide on a binder makes the odd-sized pages line up with the punches so that it fits (barely) a ten-slot rather than a sloppy nine-slot plastic binding comb. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Technology: Noise

Posted on March 31, 2005 by Susan

A computer vac and a dozen double-ended Q-tips later, I’ve solved the noise problem with the office pc.  Cleaned out both the case and the cpu fans.  I’m just glad it wasn’t hard drive problems.  Geek + housewife = computer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Morning Sounds

Posted on March 30, 2005 by Susan

I have never found the plaintive cry of the whipporwill to be a sad and lonely one, although it cuts the night alone without reply.  But it is happy, chirpy, persistant. This morning, though, the true sadness of the mourning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Technology (with sharp edges)

Posted on March 30, 2005 by Susan

I snuck in my purchase last night after class, and just unboxed my new toy this morning:  a paper trimmer. I haven’t shown it to Jim yet, he worries so.  He’s hidden my Black & Decker electric chainsaw, but with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Weather-wise

Posted on March 30, 2005 by Susan

They promise a sunny sixty degrees today.  It is too early to tell if it will come to pass.  I must work in the shop very early, then slip out for a meeting, then return to frame, print and ignore … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: The Nature of Man

Posted on March 29, 2005 by Susan

A good class tonight in Western Civ.  (Of course aceing my exam helped!)  But after working last week on Voltaire’s Candide, and looking into the purpose of man, his nature–good or evil, and whether it can be overcome by free … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Submitted

Posted on March 29, 2005 by Susan

Received a postcard yesterday from one of the literary journals, confirming receipt of my submissions. A good feeling; I’ve done it.  It’s out there to be judged, the work of planning, taming, polishing and poise. The dark lining; can’t say … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Spring Light

Posted on March 29, 2005 by Susan

Five am is light already.  Big changes over the weekend.  He still needs headlights to start out, but the destination sees the day.  Quiet this morning, overcast still from the pounding rains.  The birds aren’t sure there’s much to sing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Footnotes

Posted on March 28, 2005 by Susan

Formal essays naturally do call for footnotes and bibliography.  Aside from having three or four books open at a time while writing an essay, and after the tedious research and evidenced arguments have been planned and written, the worst part … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Blue Monday

Posted on March 28, 2005 by Susan

No snow, but rain and rain and rain.  To melt the remnant snow of winter, to seek the bulbs and roots beneath the earth and nudge them to explode in shoots and blooms. A back to almost normal week.  Classes, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Holiday Traditions

Posted on March 27, 2005 by Susan

Old traditions are modified by generations, each fingerprinted by the hands that pass them down.  A little change, a twist on recipes written in a fading delicate script on fragile paper.  She’ll never know, we say, that we did not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Happy Easter

Posted on March 27, 2005 by Susan

Happy, healthy, blessed Easter to one and all.  Remember a Man who did suffer and die for what He believed in, and for us all. Continue reading →

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REALITY: Weary

Posted on March 26, 2005 by Susan

Am almost too tired to write.  Am body weary from a couple of ten-hour days standing in the shop.  Still have so much to do before Tuesday, and then from there on through the next week.  Some framing, but mostly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Easter Thoughts

Posted on March 26, 2005 by Susan

Why pay full price for Peeps before Easter when you just poke holes in the cellophane anyway so they get hard and stale like you like them? I still have almost all of my Easter "bonnets" from my church-going days.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: “Deadmistress”

Posted on March 25, 2005 by Susan

As you may have noted, I have this book in my sidebar Amazon listing, and was thrilled to invite Dr. Carole Shumurak to our Writers’ Festival on campus the first week of April as a speaker. This morning, I received … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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