by drsusan | Mar 5, 2014 | Fifty Over Fifty, Influences
This is an imaginary garden – the garden that is your life. It might be Spring sometime soon. Or you might live someplace warm, so you may have flowers to look at as you think about this. What have you planted? what would you like to weed out of your life...
by drsusan | Feb 11, 2014 | Influences, Personal Development, Resilience, Stories
You might not think of that adorable little girl with the smiling face and cute dimples as an action hero, but, for many of us who grew up in the mid-40’s and early 50’s, she was. I lost my mother before I was nine and could easily relate to the many...
by drsusan | Feb 9, 2014 | Influences
We’re sitting in the TV lounge of Brubacher Hall waiting for the Ed Sullivan Show to begin. Fifty years ago today. Anna actually has a Beatles album (as I remember), and we might be more jealous of that than the XKE her father gave her to cheer her up during...
by drsusan | Jan 28, 2014 | Influences
When I was nine or ten I spent my first summer at sleep-away camp. Camp Quannacut was a lazy, farm-like space in Pine Bush, New York. It had a big farmhouse with a huge back porch overlooking a valley. It was there, one magic afternoon, that we gathered to hear a...
by drsusan | Jan 27, 2014 | Influences
I will admit to being close to musically illiterate. Stuck in a time warp. So, as you may imagine, it’s pretty unusual for me to watch the Grammy Awards. There was something in the promos that was intriguing, though. There would be a number of pairings of older...
by drsusan | Jan 8, 2014 | Influences
If you are an American woman over sixty, you remember the early days of rock and roll and you remember the Everly Brothers. You may remember slow dancing in someone’s basement to All I Have To Do Is Dream or Let It Be Me. You didn’t know – or care...
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