by AuthorSue | Sep 17, 2020 | Uncategorised
So many people think that religions differ greatly, but I’m always amazed at how similar they can be. This week sees the start of two very different, yet very similar holy seasons. Pchum Ben is one of the holiest times of the Cambodian calendar. It is a 15 day...
by AuthorSue | Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorised
Matthias Bein/picture alliance via Getty Images Whenever I talk to anyone about the pandemic, which I still seem to do all the time, I say that at this point my anxiety level is under control, as long as I don’t try to plan anything beyond a week away. Of the...
by AuthorSue | Sep 2, 2020 | Uncategorised
image courtesy of BBC.co.uk It was reported that Kaing Guk Eav, otherwise known as Duch, died today. He had been the Chief of the notorious Tuol Sleng Prison and had personally overseen the torture and deaths of thousands of Cambodian citizens. It took nearly 50 years...
by AuthorSue | Aug 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
Nadia Kingsley And Fair Acre Press have created a fun podcast called The Word Bin. The idea is for people, many of them writers, to choose a word to bin, or throw into the trash. If there was a word which you wanted to get rid of, what would it be and why. Every day...
by AuthorSue | Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
Back in May, I wrote a post about my inability to write creatively during what was then the middle of the beginning of the pandemic. You can reread it in its entirety here, but here is one conclusion I drew: Writing creatively takes a huge amount of energy and a real...
by AuthorSue | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorised
Surprisingly, I have often found myself, in my musical life, playing classical music with physicians. I’ve been fascinated by the real connection between music and medicine, and I even tried to dissect that relationship in one of the characters of my novel, Out...
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