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Susan
I studied Literature at college, so I have whole passages and epic poems carved into my brain: Tennyson's Lady of Shallot, Poe's Raven, Goethe's Der Erlkonig, and a dozen of Rimbaud's poems, I can rattle... More »
Susan
Weird, or perhaps not: the day you ask this is the very day the final paperwork arrived from my mother's estate. She's been gone over four years now, with my father, brother, and oldest sister,... More »
Susan
Folded towels. I know it's stupid, but I can't help it, and I will come out of the towel closet right now, and say I love a well-folded towel. When my husband gets to the... More »
Susan
I send letters often, though they're typed; they're query letters and cover letters to submissions to editors. In this part of the world not everybody wants e-mail. Personal letters? I do send postcards and cards... More »
Susan
Today, when stopped by a Garda (a cop). ARGH! I lied right to his face to avoid a thousand-euro fine, and he let me go sweet thing that I am, but now I need to... More »
Susan
After my mother died, we found a plain cardboard box in her room that held an assortment of odds and ends in plastic bags. One bag held a bundle of letters written to her from... More »
Susan
This question deserves a lot of thought and a good long thoughtful post, but that's not in the cards today! Maybe a while from now I'll come back to it and muse over it more.... More »
Susan
We've been here two years, almost to the day. We closed at the end of August and moved in a few days later. We'd been looking at houses for a few years, looking for something... More »
Susan
My blog, I think, has been my best gift to myself recently; I re-launched it in June. Since then the occasional hour I take out of my day to work on it, is another small... More »
Susan
A few weeks ago, I received the very first international submission for the caregiving anthology I'm editing. It was from a man living just a few miles from where I grew up and his bio... More »
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