Susan B. Lovejoy's Blog, page 9

Celebrating Each Other

We find our moments of celebration wherever we can these days, in our nearly post-quarantine world we have learned to appreciate each other more than ever. Our lives have been forever imprinted by this unseen enemy as we try to find a semblance of a new normal to continue forward.

Deep inside us, now more than ever, we need to be grateful and to celebrate with our nearest and dearest, because we are social animals at heart. It is time for our pods to expand back to including extended family a...

Need Some Help?

Do you have a young adult who might need some help launching into independent living? Are you looking for some grandmotherly guidance to start your adult journey? Love, Gramma might be just what you need to get to independence. Chapters on shopping, cleaning, cooking, and so much more. Take a look and see if someone you know could benefit from listening to Gramma!

Gramma’s Easy Baked Pork Chops

This recipe is another adaptation of mine, intended to make baked pork chops more tasty for young ones. Years ago, I actually converted a niece and nephew who were not fans of pork chops with this one!

Click on the title to get the recipe.

Remembering My First

When I started writing in earnest, around the age of 12, it was mostly poetry, the rhymes and verses reflecting what I was feeling, wishing, or trying to cope with in my life. I wrote quite a few poems and then started writing short stories, because I didn’t always want to be restricted by the number of words or making a rhyming match. I had some very supportive English teachers along the way, Beverly Keeler, Linda Sweeney Wilde, Judith Robbins, Dottie Hentz Smith, and Eileen Lucier. They not on...