by AuthorSue | Feb 25, 2020 | Uncategorised
Logo of the Brain Pickings blog by Maria Popova Here is a newsletter and blog which I want to share with my friends and readers. Brain Pickings is, in Maria’s own words, a labor of love which she has continued weekly for over thirteen years. It pops up in my...
by AuthorSue | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
I feel compelled to write about the coronavirus, even though it is not the sort of topic I would normally include in my blog posts. I left the US for my annual two-month stay in SE Asia on February 6. The virus already existed but seemed to be contained to mainland...
by AuthorSue | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorised
Many writers teach. My teaching has taken on a life of its own and led me to found the international non-profit called Writing Through. We’ve accomplished a great deal over the five years of our existence, now working in Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore. Happily,...
by AuthorSue | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorised
I recently wrote a blog about being creative here. In it I asserted that we are all creative beings, and that we hold ourselves back too often. My friend and fellow writer, Joe Stein, had the following insightful comment: I also think that some folk have a tendency to...
by AuthorSue | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncategorised
courtesy of wsj.com We live in a time when truth is under siege, facts are doubted, and our ushers to understanding, journalists, are often humiliated. Each generation has its own torch bearers (which in itself is a good thing, I think). In the US, there was Walter...
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