People find value in varying things. I personally find value in fabric and fabric scraps. Yes, I save scraps. Not the really tiny ones even though I am self-diagnosed ADD. My need to waste as little as

Here is a link to my latest publication. A memoir I've worked on for a while.

Wake up She trots down the stairs feeling the newness of the carpet beneath bare feet. Bare feet in winter time. Life had slipped into an easy flow since the remodeling chaos. Coffee. How she loved that

Awesome! A family road trip. Picnic and back roads. Wishing for a paper map because, while the phones are informative, the details are difficult to "stretch" into existence. The phone benefit

My surprise 40th birthday party. And I thought was old then!! My second husband, Ian, and I had lived in Lexington for almost a year. I was settling into a house bigger than I'd ever lived in before. The

Sticking to the guidelines today. After all, the prompts are merely suggestions not rules. My issues of authority surfacing again! Many items come to mind. I could go historical and do the automobile,

Sticking to the guidelines today. After all, the prompts are merely suggestions not rules. My issues of authority surfacing again! Many items come to mind. I could go historical and do the automobile,

Again, I diverge from the given topic! They say a quote from a movie. I am choosing a quote from Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, (HarperPerennial 1991). Maybe this book is my favorite of hers, but

Today, I am to use all my senses to describe. Paint a word picture. I think I can stick to the instruction today! Oh, the many things I could write about. Paris. The earth beneath my feet on the Camino.

Not exactly following the suggestion - but I am pretty good at "bucking the system" by twisting the rules just a bit. There is an entire blog post on that personal revelation! I have adapted

I am challenging myself to write with an email prompt for 31 days. To sharp my skills, to force myself to write. Writer’s write. So if I want to publish again, well… pen in hand, Susan Rea. The first prompt

Blogged on The Almost Daily Thread ON JANUARY 31, 2017 I will march with women as long as my feet will carry me. In my 67 years I have worked my way through many a gender equality issue. I married young

Joseph's Journey is a novel I have worked on for a long, long time. Because of the generosity of my Uncle John I was able to take a year's sabbatical and write. This novel was given to me through a storyteller

RONDO AND THE PURPLE PLAY MOBILE By Susan Rea Caldwell Rondo came zooming into Santaland one August day on the snappiest purple moving vehicle ever seen by any of the Elves gainfully employed by S. Clause

A sweat bead drips off her nose as she prays for wholeness and health for the peach eaters and providers while canning peaches which are so perfectly formed – 36 each without a single bug – she knows they