by Susan Matley | Aug 18, 2017 | Official Blog
This doesn’t happen to me very often, but today I’m going to stall, stall, stall. There are too many things to write about and think about. No single idea will rise above the others, regardless of the many inflammatory topics making the rounds on Facebook. You know...
by Susan Matley | Aug 11, 2017 | Official Blog
Today’s meditation is on being fat. Here’s my story: I was a fat child. I might even have qualified as obese. At age eleven I was 5’3” and weighed 133 pounds. I wore a junior size 15. My measurements were 36”-36”-36”. From memory and photographic evidence, I had...
by Susan Matley | Aug 4, 2017 | Official Blog
Writers, sometimes, get a bad rap. We’re characterized as brooding, overly sensitive, obsessed with our work. Writers with young children at home are known to say, “Don’t interrupt me when I’m writing unless there’s blood.” This week I’ve enlisted Bruce Matley, the...
by Susan Matley | Jul 28, 2017 | Official Blog
If you grew up in Washington State and were educated in the public school system (long may it reign!), you’ve probably heard about Henry Harmon Spalding via the eighth grade requirement, Washington State History. Little known fact: 155 years ago, he lived across the...
by Susan Matley | Jul 21, 2017 | Official Blog
From the post-apocalyptic wasteland of American culture rises a new hero. Wielding books as bridges between disparate segments of society, they are known as The Read Warriors. You, too, can become a legend in your own time. It’s such a simple concept you’ll wonder why...
