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Every time I write a column…
Great, brilliant idea. Write one paragraph of great brilliant idea and 800 words of crap. Tell myself that I suck as a writer, ask myself what the hell am I doing? No one should pay me for this...
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Women of New England Desire to Vote
“Wait, Susan, women ALL OVER the United States don’t just desire, they DO vote.” True, but in 1880, the did not and all they could do was express a desire. Anti-women’s suffrage voices suggested that...
View ArticleWell, heeeey
I can’t help but notice that there is a bit of traction over here lately. I suppose if I was the SEO markety sort this would send me into a tizzy of posts trying to capitalize on the activity and boost...
View ArticleWho Said That?
Life is hard; citing sources is sometimes harder. -Susan Vollenweider, 2018 I believe in research, I’m also practitioner of due diligence so when I asked my Facebook friends for their favorite, life...
View ArticleThe end is now the beginning
This column first ran in The Kansas City Star on November 22, 2019. Here’s proof! (As long as the link works, anyway.) It ran almost to the day that my very first column was published in 2010, but this...
View ArticleA valuable lesson oft-repeated
Yes! I learned something similar when I was in my 30s and a stay-at-home mom. Back then, successful days meant getting to the end with the house still standing and at least one kid still talking to me....
View ArticleHi!
Hey, how have you been? I mean, besides “managing.” If I was the writer I thought I was in March I would have started a journal or, at least, written some short and quippy relatable observations as we...
View ArticleThings I knead
It’s science, people! Smell and memories are connected on a biological level. That’s why, when you smell tomatoes warm from the sun, you think of your grandfather; when you smell Lysol, you ask who’s...
View ArticleStill here and doing…stuff
Hi! I’m still around! I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been as excited to hear that from friends as I am this year… after this year and a half going on two. Knowing that people I care about have...
View ArticleEpisode #One for realzies!
The first episode of the podcast was just an intro. In the PodWorld (gag, I hate “pod” even though I felt compelled to use it on my social media accounts) you have to have an episode for Apple to...
View ArticleLet’s be realistic…
I honestly have zero desire to post on here every time that I drop a new episode, that’s twice a week and I’m not that motivated, and am- at my core- lazy. If you want to listen and be updated when new...
View ArticleA Favorite Lesson
This is one of the best things that I have ever learned in regards to personal relationships! It would have been handy to know about in, say, my teens or early 20s…but we’re all on our own path, right?...
View ArticleThe Soon-To-Be Former Life of a Baseball Parent
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear, despite my 20 years as a parent of two sport-playing kids (the third is more cerebrally entertained) I’m not now, nor have I ever been, sporty. Therefore, back in...
View ArticleParadigm Shift Ahead for Us All
This column originally ran in the Kansas City Star on November, 27, 2024 Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Life is about change. Of course you have. You may not like it or you may love it and...
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