The Suburban Newspaper

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

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
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Published on March 23, 2025

I Eat Dog Food

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
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Published on March 11, 2025

Grow, Learn, Glow

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!

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
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Published on February 4, 2025
Published on February 11, 2019
Published on February 13, 2018

Lovesship

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
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Published on January 12, 2025

It’s FREE!

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
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Published on December 16, 2024
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Published on December 25, 2017
Published on December 4, 2016
Published on December 13, 2024

A Divine Intervention

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

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
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Published on October 27, 2024

Reach For The Light

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

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

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

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