by Sue Holler | Oct 31, 2012 | Stories
I write a lot of things, but poetry isn’t one of them. This will prove it. An Ode to Candy Corn Oh, candy corn How do I love, thee? Let me count thy stripes. I love thy orange like the set of day That in its saturated sweetness Does fit so snugly to the...
by Sue Holler | Oct 26, 2012 | Stories
The problem with a day off (versus an off-day) is that it begets the desire for another day off. Suffering from what felt like a terminal case of writer/volunteer/mother burn-out, with a deadline just met and nothing particularly pressing, I did the unthinkable. ...
by Sue Holler | Oct 18, 2012 | Glow Up
This column, which appeared in the Daily Herald-Tribune yesterday, has generated quite a bit of response, so I thought I’d share it here. Thanks to everyone who commented here, phoned, texted, or left a comment on the DHT website. The column, by the way, is...
by Sue Holler | Oct 16, 2012 | Stories
My kids have pretty good vocabularies, but every once in awhile they slip in a made-up word or they mispronounce a word so badly that I know it’s one they’ve encountered by reading. Last night, my son used the word “allegated” in a conversation. I knew he meant to...
by Sue Holler | Oct 5, 2012 | Stories
You’d expect a posthumous book launch to be overwhelmingly sad, but the mood was celebratory last Saturday, joyous and filled with love as “The Piper of Shadonia” was officially introduced. Written by the late Linda Smith, a long-time and much-loved children’s...
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