The Athenee Palace Hilton of Bucharest. Wow! Motel 6 is usually more our style, but I could get used to Hilton. And, of course, fresh flowers! A large room and comfy bed: And a view of Bucharest! It seems like a touch of home to find a Gideon Bible in the bedside table. We have…
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…
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…
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…
When I sold my first novel Mother Earth Father Sky, my life suddenly turned into something very akin to a fairy tale as the novel hit bestseller lists around the world. My big splurge was to buy a grandfather clock. My husband and I went shopping, and I found the clock of my dreams. The…
About You! November is one of those months that I both love and dread. I love that November (in the US anyway) means Thanksgiving, the beginning of holiday celebrations, a time that reminds us to be grateful. I dread that the days are short and often gray, that the trees are bare and that November…
Today my father is 84! I’m always a bit amazed when I think over Dad’s life experiences. He was born in Arkansas, back when it was still a very normal thing for Arkansas farmers to use mules, not tractors. He remembers his great grandfather who was a veteran of the Civil War – and a POW (and…
We just returned from a vacation that we’ve been saving for and anticipating during the past two years. We cruised the South Caribbean, visited three new-to-us countries, indulged in gourmet dinners, saw some great musicals, made some wonderful new friends! And as great as it was to take that vacation, we’re discovering all over again that it’s…
A Blog Carnival celebrates the ideas and thoughts of a group of people who Post on one theme. My Post today is part of a Blog Carnival organized and hosted by Bridget Chumbley http://www.bridgetchumbley.com/. The theme word for this week is gratitude. This is my contribution. ————- When I was only five years old, God blessed…
To our Veterans and Military Personnel : Thank you more than words can ever say. God bless you, Neil and Sue Harrison
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