by AuthorSue | May 7, 2022 | Personal, poetry, Uncategorised, Writing
Mother’s Day is a holiday that means well, but it’s complicated. For me, being American but raising my children in the UK, there was always the question of which Mother’s Day we would celebrate. Do we recognize UK Mothering Sunday in March or the US Mother’s Day in...
by AuthorSue | Mar 30, 2022 | Uncategorised
It is exactly one year ago today that I wrote my first blog post about cancer, From Covid to Cancer. For the past few months, my family and I have found ourselves wondering about the timing. Isn’t it a year since the diagnosis? Isn’t it a year since the...
by AuthorSue | Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorised
The difficult year of 2021 kept up its angry stance until the bitter end, so I am two months late with my annual reading list. Mea culpa! But better late than never, and careful readers of this decade-long tradition may note that this year’s list is quite...
by AuthorSue | Nov 13, 2021 | Uncategorised
That’s me lying on the floor in 1979, playing everyone who died in The Aeneid. I was the TA for my thesis advisor’s course on epic poetry in translation. (That befuddled person on the right went on to become my husband.) On the left, is Professor Kenneth...
by AuthorSue | Oct 3, 2021 | Uncategorised
Cancer comes with its own vocabulary. We’ve already learned about clear margins, PETscans, stomas, ports, intraoperational lasers. The latest addition to the list is scanxiety – the anxiety one feels as she/he goes into one of a long series of...
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