If each day is the same as the last, that’s no way to live unless you find the blessing in each day.
Author Archives: Susan G. Weidener
Jersey Shore Memories
They’re all gone now…my parents, my brother, my husband, but nothing changes with time. Not really. They’re still with me, still here in what I write.
This Place Called Home
Last week, I drove back to the old neighborhood where I grew up, where my parents lived across the street from a military academy, where I met my future husband. In the place of a once stately house where the head of the school lived, a skeletal structure under construction with a three-car garage juttedContinue reading “This Place Called Home”
The Lesson of Juneteenth
Sometimes, you forget, get lazy, and need a little jumpstart to remember just how marvelous it is when the writer’s voice is strong and the message passionate.
Writing Life with Possibility
The writing life is alive with possibility, discovery, and reflection on a new morning.
The Motherhood Contract
So, what if I sound just like a million other proud moms? This is who I am. A mom who holds close to her heart that “contract in perpetuity” she made so long ago.
Takeaways From Nature and Writing
If people can take home at least one useful thing, a dab of inspiration, a writing prompt that gets the pen moving, or a conversation to remember then the day is a success, I think.
Writing to Save a Landscape from Ruin
Still, I hold out hope that a meadow of grass not far down the road from where I live offers respite at least this spring, if not next. But who knows when that place of solitude will surrender to the bulldozer?
Seeking Answers in the Holy Land
It’s not up to us to understand the mystery, only to embrace it.
In Search of New Stories
The time I went packing had arrived…time for a change of scenery in search of new stories.
