Here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we’re used to snow and cold temperatures, but this year even the folks around here are getting fed up with winter. So to cheer myself up, I’ve decided to list some of the good things about very long, cold winters. 1. More writing time. 2. My back porch becomes a…
I’ve never been a good shopper, probably because I’ve lived most of my life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When I was a kid, shopping choices included our local mom-and-pop stores (which were wonderful), catalogs, and homemade. Now that I’m an adult our shopping choices include our local mom-and-pop stores (which are still wonderful), Wal-Mart, online…
This week we received one of those flashy ads that include a glued-on fake car key and the promise that if you scratch off the gray on the 3 scratch-off pads and they match, you’re a winner!! Guess what? My 3 pads matched. As did everyone’s, I’m sure. Now if I needed to buy a…
Today was one of those sweet days that I get to stay home and write! I was so wrapped up in the world I was writing about that I wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on outside my windows Then my dad called. I was surprised to hear that he was not able…
I received a message from a friend this week that surprised me beyond words. My first novel, MOTHER EARTH FATHER SKY, published way back in 1990 and then republished this year as an ebook, had made a national CNN list. Before I tell you what list, I should explain that although I wrote MEFS as…
Sue Harrison, 2012, Lake Superior State University Evening News Photograph Way back in the mid-1980s, I was a young mother who had just completed her first novel – Mother Earth Father Sky. I was receiving enough rejection letters from publishers and agents to wallpaper our living room. To shore up my sagging self-esteem, I decided…
We were extra blessed this year to have our daughter and our son and his wife and children all home for Christmas. What fun! We also had the joy of sharing our holidays with my father and mother, and my husband’s father. When my daughter-in-law gave my mom a hug, my mother said, “Merry Christmas!”…
This Thanksgiving I felt especially blessed, because my mother is still with us, despite the ravages of white matter dementia, which has so afflicted her body and mind. Imagine not being able to use your hands, not being able to speak, not being able to walk, your muscles so stiff that even when you lie…
Last week my husband Neil and I took a vacation. Altogether now – “AHHHHHHH.” Yes, that’s the sound of relaxation, and I didn’t know how badly I needed to relax until I lay down on the king sized bed in our rented ‘home-away-from-home’ (Apologies for the cliche.) and slept away the first afternoon of our…
Um, no, the title is NOT a typo, and the picture? Let me explain. In December 2007 my husband Neil, a high school principal, had begun his first day of Christmas break. He was silently celebrating that he had only one chore left to accomplish, and then the next two weeks were his to do…
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