Susan G. Weidener

Writing and Self-Perception

How do our perceptions offer insight into who we are and our place in the world? And what about perceptions others have of us?

Myths and Writing as a Vision Quest

If I write about it, the storyline emerges. Writing is a vision quest, after all, an unfolding of myths.

The One True Desire

While writing might feel painful at times, the absence of exploring long-buried feelings becomes an obstacle to knowing ourselves and others.

Confidence and the Act of Writing

I have my writing to dig deep, unearth the secrets. I gain confidence.

The Many Benefits of Writing

“It’s not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

In an Aging and Difficult World, How to Find Focus?

The body is fragile, and the mind is taxed to remember details, storylines, and even the simplest things that once came to mind without effort.

If You Don’t Write, Life Is Just One Thing After Another

We live in a world where too often people are glued to their screens, they’re not getting outside, taking a walk, just living, just observing, just listening to someone else. See that’s the joy of being a writer. All of that is part of your job description. And in the end, you’re making sense out of “one damn thing after another.”

Writing to Remember … and Move Forward

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” –Anaïs Nin

Life’s Small Triumphs at Summer’s End

In difficult times it becomes hard not to feel overwhelmed which makes relishing life’s little triumphs sweeter.

The Ancestry and Legacy Journey

The Ancestry journey has been an exercise in “and the memory returns.” My father said that the Weideners came to Philadelphia prior to the Revolutionary War. “Weidener with three e’s is the real German spelling,” he insisted, not the Weidner and Widener as some spell it.