by AuthorSue | Oct 31, 2016 | Cambodia, philanthropy, poetry, teaching, Writing
This past week, I traveled up to a small town called Samrong in Oder Meanchey Province, near the Thai border. To be honest, I was a bit nervous. I’ve been to remote places before to teach, and I really didn’t know what I would find. This has been a very...
by AuthorSue | Oct 20, 2016 | Cambodia, philanthropy, teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
I’m now back in Cambodia for a busy couple of weeks splitting my time between Writing Through and Anjali House. I can tell you that it’s a much longer trip to SE Asia from New York than it is from London. The jet lag was pretty intense, but after five days...
by AuthorSue | Oct 10, 2016 | teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
Isn’t that the question that every student asks? Well now for me it really does seem to matter in a new way. Over the past quarter century I adopted the British way of spelling in most of my writing, and as someone whose stock in trade is words, that was...
by AuthorSue | Sep 19, 2016 | teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
I can’t even begin to say how much stuff there is in my head — not necessarily useful stuff, mind you, but the kind of stuff that feels important and necessary at the time. Over the past few years, I have gotten used to juggling lots of different...
by AuthorSue | Jul 31, 2016 | politics, United States, Writing
At the beginning of July, we moved out of the UK. That move after 26 years — a lifetime, really — coincided with the storm brought about by the Brexit referendum. There’s no need to describe what that was like. Anyone likely to be reading this blog...
by AuthorSue | Jul 5, 2016 | Personal, poetry, Writing
Here’s a little story….. In 2008, when I was promoting my first novel, Tangled Roots, I was interviewed by a BBC affiliate radio station. It was one of my first ever radio interviews and I was both excited and nervous. It was going well. I was hitting all...
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