Susan G. Weidener

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.

And the Memory Returns

Told with beauty and warmth, insight and style, And the Memory Returns captures a woman’s journey as she ages and finds healing and redemption.

A Writer Explores Her “Backyard”

I’m always looking for new experiences and encounters. Or, selfishly, I’m looking to learn more about me, who I am. Since I’m on hiatus from international travel, I’ve been exploring my “backyard,” so to speak. I live in Pennsylvania. Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland are all within easy driving distance. I suppose it’s not whereContinue reading “A Writer Explores Her “Backyard””