by AuthorSue | Jun 30, 2015 | history, music, politics, Uncategorized, United States
So, this isn’t what I had planned to write about here today. But lots can happen in a week. The last sentence of one of my blog posts of last week read: All I can say is that although I am one of the most pollyanna-ishly optimistic and hopeful people I know, I...
by AuthorSue | Jun 25, 2015 | Cambodia, philanthropy, poetry, short story, teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
Over the past three months, our intrepid Writing Through Facilitator, Katy Oglethorpe, traveled – first with me (Sue Guiney) and then, for most of the time, on her own – throughout the northwest of Cambodia, delivering our workshops to the children in the...
by AuthorSue | Jun 23, 2015 | politics, Uncategorized
Much has already been written about last week’s terrible shooting in South Carolina. I usually try not to use this blog as a forum for my political convictions, but this time I find that I need to speak out, especially as an American who has spent most of her...
by AuthorSue | Jun 17, 2015 | music, Uncategorized
Many know that I have played the violin since I was seven years old. Playing the violin is such a basic part of me that I rarely mention it. But for over twenty years, I have been a member of the first violin section of the Kensington Philharmonic, one of...
by AuthorSue | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized, Writing
Writers are always being asked this question. It kind of drives me crazy, though. My favourite author changes over time, with age, with circumstance. And I know that people are always expecting me to say something especially clever, or name someone surprising. So...
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