This is Women’s History Month, which I confused with International Women’s Day, which I missed. But today should be Gwendolyn Soper Day, and as far as I’m concerned, it is. I am […]
I am the author of a poetry chapbook, I Will Meet You at the River, (as Suzannah Gilman), frequent traveler, and a licensed attorney who represented victims of domestic violence under a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. My poetry, essays, fiction, and nonfiction have in such in such publications as The Florida Review, Pearl Magazine, Calyx Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Pearl Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Slow Trains, The Cafe Review, and The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. I competed in flash fiction slams, winning every time. I won Literary Death Match on my 50th birthday. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry, I now concentrate on blogging for The Gloria Sirens and writing fiction. I have four children, four daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren. I live with my husband, the poet Billy Collins, in Florida.
This is Women’s History Month, which I confused with International Women’s Day, which I missed. But today should be Gwendolyn Soper Day, and as far as I’m concerned, it is. I am […]
If you’re a writer, it may be that no single thing came to mind when you read “The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Writer,” because the truth is, we need […]
Nominate her. That’s it. Just nominate Nikki Haley as your Republican Party candidate for president, and I’ll vote for her. You have my word. Why would I vote for Nikki Haley over Joe Biden? Because […]
Where else might have I have run into this woman so different from me than at the tag office? I had one chance, and I thought I should have been able to succeed, I blew it.
Just kidding. I’m not counting anything. It’s too hot. The end of summer can’t come soon enough. During these long, slow, steamy days, the skunk vine invading our back yard grows better […]
…because they asked me to. And why would I turn down The Big 1¢ Steal— any 11 records or tapes for 1¢, or any 13 records or tapes for 1¢, depending on […]
Out of all the love affairs of my life, the most unlikely has by far been the most satisfying and most loving— the affair with a man twenty-five years my senior. We’ve been together fifteen years. Things have changed, but not in the way you might expect.
It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.
-Emma Thompson
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
– Anne Lamott
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
― Elizabeth Gilbert