If you have something in your life that you really love to do, which makes you so excited to get OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING, there is probably a very good chance you will be able to find happiness forever.
Better Than Sex
The Suburban Newspaper
The following articles have been published in The Suburban Newspaper at www.thesuburban.com
My Column is titled: Living in the Now
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Published on April 15, 2025
There’s a New Sheriff in Town
Howdy Partner! Giddy-up to a Cure! Don’t squat on your spurs!
We have launched our 2025 Walk to Cure Diabetes campaign! YEE HAW!!
This year’s 2025 fundraising theme is “There’s a New Sheriff in Town”.
Saddle-up with our posse to mosey on down a 5k walk route, to help raise funds to cure T1D. We’re goin to wrangle up our ponies to make a big bold difference. Our team “Suzie’s Sweethearts” will be wear’in Sheriff Badges and Cowboy Hats in solidarity to cure T1D. Be my Deputy! Wear the Badge!
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Published on April 2, 2025
The No Bullsh*t Theory
I’ve come up with a new theory, which I’m trying to apply. It is called The No Bullsh*t Theory. This theory applies to specific days of the week in which you take a break from watching the news, engaging with social media, spending money (except on food) and complaining.
To understand the theory is to apply limits on the things you do often, but you don’t need to do as often, such as complaining. For example, do not complain about anything on Tuesdays. Do not listen to complaining and do not engage in complaining during this day. Limit yourself in all aspects of complaining. At first it might be challenging, but then it becomes freeing. NO COMPLAINING TUESDAYS!
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Published on March 23, 2025
I Eat Dog Food
In tribute to my Great-Aunt Bella, who never ate a vegetable and lived to 92!
OK, ok maybe I exaggerated a little bit. What I mean to say is, sometimes what I eat looks like dog food. I love to eat fresh salads, but I can’t eat any type of leaf. What’s crazy is the reaction I get when I ask for a salad without any lettuce leaves. That’s right! I don’t like to eat leaves. Any kind of leaf in fact, may it be romaine, iceberg, arugula, boston… None of them! The main problem with eating leaves is that I have terrible, TERRIBLE difficulty digesting them. I’ve tried for years, but it just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t get through my digestive system without a problem.
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Published on May 3, 2016
Published on March 21, 2025
The Berry of Inspiration
I asked Liane, “How did you get so great?” She states, “I found my purpose. I love to care for people. I want to give these women what I needed for myself and didn’t have. I now feel accomplished and useful and especially proud with the creation of LI-BER-T House.
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Published on March 11, 2025
Grow, Learn, Glow
“Suzie, it’s time to get up for school. We need to bring your volcano project to Miss Chess,” my mother said in 1972.
At 10 years old, I jumped out of bed with so much enthusiasm. I couldn’t wait to bring my project to school. I had worked on it for weeks. It was a huge clay volcano made out of mesh wiring, coloured clay, tubing, glue, newspaper print and paint, all built up on a square 2×2 piece of plywood.
Here’s the thing: the volcano worked too, as I placed baking soda into a tube which was secured inside the center of the volcano. I couldn’t wait for my time to present the project.
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Published on February 28, 2025
Stop Tearing!
I think I touched on some sensitive nerves with my recently published article, “Stop Flushing!” Soon after publication, I received many emails with encouraging responses.
Laura – “Yes! This happens always. I never thought about writing this scenario. I’m so glad you wrote about it. Can you write about the always tearing toilet paper and the ultra-low toilet paper dispensers?”
Here ya go Laura!
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Published on February 16, 2025
Love is Love
Whoever sent the message, IT HAS BEEN RECEIVED! I feel the love. Sometimes you don’t know how it happens, it just does. You need to believe in the spirit of love as it is all around us.
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Published on February 4, 2025
Published on February 11, 2019
Published on February 13, 2018
Lovesship
There’s something beautiful about the cultivation of friendships. Years and years of being someone’s friend might compound into an everlasting bond. But is there a point in a friendship when it becomes more than a simple friendship? When a stronger bond of love rises, however, without a lover’s romance? I think I have reached that point in some of my friendships. When I can no longer refer to a friend as simply ‘a friend,’ instead we are in a ‘Lovesship’.
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Published on January 27, 2025
Stop Flushing!
This is a serious matter! It mostly affects women. Something needs to be done about this problem. Who ever invented the automatic flushing toilet, did not realize the needs of all women! If you know, you know!
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Published on January 12, 2025
It’s FREE!
On the day that I can take $10 off my grocery bill, feels like a really big victory for me. There was a FREE in that freedom. But… did you know there are tons of things which are also free? Things that people seldom appreciate and observe. Usually when you can no longer have them, then you realize the free in so many wonderful things. Young people! Appreciate the real life frees all around you!
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Published on December 22, 2024
The Pond of Life
Here’s something to ponder about life. Whose reality is actually real? Is my reality your reality? Who sets the barometer for anyone’s reality? While standing in the pond of life, I thought about this for a very long time.
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Published on December 16, 2024
I Don’t Know When it Happened?
This is no regular Generation Gap… This is a gorge! This is the devil’s door! This is the mother of all grand canyons! This is the beginning of the divide. The divide between me and my youth, me and my children, me and the trending popular culture. Actually, news to the world… I’m NOT TRENDING!
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Published on December 25, 2017
Published on December 4, 2016
Published on December 13, 2024
A Divine Intervention
I’m standing next to a tall, beautiful nun in a gorgeous royal blue habit. She is selling 2025 calendars from her parish, L’Ordre du Magnificat de la Mère de Dieu. Each calendar is $10. The owners of the shop bought a calendar and gave an extra $5 donation for a candle. As she walked out the door, the wind lifted her habit in a cape like way, as though she was a superhero. I was transfixed and felt as though I was in the presence of God or a divine spirit.
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Published on December 1, 2024
Listen to Your Superiors
Here’s the thing about being a senior citizen. The word ‘senior’ sucks! Here’s another word that sucks — ‘grown-up’. I will toss one more into this yucky mix — ‘old-timer’. Whoever came up with these unflattering, disappointing and horrendous terms? Perhaps it would be more flattering to refer to a senior as a Superior, a Chief, a Leader, a Master or an Exquisite Elder. If seniors were given proper flattering identities, which truly reflect their superior value, they would be more respected and entrusted in our society.
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Published on November 6, 2024
The Ladybug Effect
I don’t know if you believe in spirits, but I seriously do. My grandmother, Sadye Cohen, was quite a grand dame. We didn’t call her Grandma, Safta, Nonna, Lola, Meemaw or Bubbie; she was Sadye, the same name her friends used. She was 4-feet-11-inches tall and was referred to as ‘two feet of thunder’.
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Published on October 27, 2024
Reach For The Light
As we approach the depths of autumn, the daylight hours are shrinking and melting. For some people this is a challenging time to say goodbye to summer, light and warmth. In blows the cool breezes frosting the landscapes. The painted hues of golds, burnt oranges and red crimson leaves, blaze and fall to the ground. It’s time to reach, really reach for the light.
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Published on October 13, 2024
Give an Egg, Sell an Egg
At dinner that night, my father asked us what we were going to do to give back to the world. He stated that today was filled with blessings. So, what was our plan to give back? I wasn’t sure. I told him I was going to think about it. A few days passed and I thought about a way to give back. It was called, “Give an egg. Sell an egg.” I heard of kids doing this so I thought I would give it a try. This is how it works…
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Published on December 31, 2018
Published on December 17, 2017
Published on October 9, 2024
Marry Your Loves
It was an unusually warm afternoon for September 14th. Puffy clouds rolled along covering and uncovering the sun. Will I write in my journal? Will I meditate? Will I simply gaze out onto the horizon and daydream? While drifting among the reeds and lily pods, I was able to write pages of thoughts in my journal. The canoe gently rocked me while I wrote. At some point, I realized that I needed to return to the dock as the rocking and relaxation was causing me to become sleepy. Yet alone, I married my loves.
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Published on September 22, 2024
It’s a Crazy Ride
The question, “How did I get here and where am I going?” is always a present thought. Is this random, chance, or prescribed? Is my tale already set in stone and I’m simply following along a controlled path? Does someone or something have the game controls of my life? I wonder?
Meeting people along life’s highway is also questionable. If I went to a different school, I would have not met Gloria, Beverly or Alissa. If I lived in a different place, I might not have met my life partner. Then our creations of people would not have occurred. Or would it? So many questions require solutions.
How much is already predetermined or prescribed or chance?
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Published on September 20, 2024
Published on November 18, 2019
Published on September 23, 2018
