by Susan Matley | Jun 28, 2019 | Official Blog
One day I’ll travel, as early as next month when I visit my home town for a couple of days. Given the brief time frame it’s a trip targeted for family but if I run true to form I’ll sneak in some time with friends, too. That’s the scheduling challenge of traveling to...
by Susan Matley | Jun 21, 2019 | Official Blog
This week, it is six months since Bruce died. I started feeling strange about this when I noticed that the days of this week have exactly the same dates as that week in December: Bruce came home on Monday the seventeenth and died shortly before midnight on Sunday the...
by Susan Matley | Jun 14, 2019 | Official Blog
Last Sunday a friend and I attended the closing performance of “Crimes of the Heart” (by Beth Henley) at the local community theatre. Mid-way through Act One a strange thought occurred to me: though I’d staged managed a production of this play in 1994, I had...
by Susan Matley | Jun 7, 2019 | Official Blog
Nearly six months after Bruce’s death I am finally getting it into my stubborn head that I need more rest. And relaxation. Rest and relaxation; kind of catchy, isn’t it? It’s crazy that it’s taken me this long to realize that, since a month prior to Bruce’s...
by Susan Matley | Jun 6, 2019 | Official Blog
Several weeks ago I volunteered to write a review for “Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights” by Randall Platt (HarperCollins Children’s Books © 2109). I’ve been gifted an ARC (Advanced Review Copy) in exchange for an honest review....