Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

paper airplane

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

we are as fragile, he says: fingers pleating paper as if he knows the constructs of heaven and hell the alignments of life and death; place and dust a casual and random flight loosed once and nosedived, airplaning into what’s forgotten

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mortality (a sedoka)

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

the raspberry leaves serrated, corrugated fall with whispers of autumn she knows she’s dying she says, but doesn’t feel it in her bones, at least not yet   For dVerse.

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Dilly Beans: Where mad scientist, gardener, and cook meet and shake hands

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

It’s the point of summer where the garden stops playing coy and yields everything at once.  I love fresh green beans for dinner and don’t mind taking a few minutes to blanch what we don’t use and freeze them for … Continue reading →

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seventy times seven

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

That’s 490 times I’m supposed to forgive you but who’s counting? Eventually this math of us becomes less additive and more subtractive so that somehow we two together are less than the whole we were at the start.

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Dumped by Romeo

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on The Top Banana:
Have you ever wondered what happened to the middle ranking characters in Shakespeare plays ? If it’s a comedy, the principal characters get married- Beatrice and Benedick, for example. And if it’s a tragedy,…

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Anthem of the Writer

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels
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Faking it

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

There’s no twerking in this commercial by the fish by the cakes by the light bulbs. It’s the new Walmart they’re selling now: the squeeze cheese glows Chernobyl yellow, stocked by a simulated employee who talks about paid for education and … Continue reading →

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