Susie Duncan Sexton's Blog, page 29
September 13, 2012
best i could today....
i done did the very best i could today--
posting "orphans' " faces and facts on grand display!
hoping somebody cares and adopts a dear "friend",
leading the way to a fantastic, happy trend~!
"let us empty every cage..." ♥ =^..^-
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GREAT NEWS! The Churubusco Public Library has purchased copies of Secrets of an Old Typewriter to have on the shelves there - so exciting! Order your own copy at the below links...
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
posting "orphans' " faces and facts on grand display!
hoping somebody cares and adopts a dear "friend",
leading the way to a fantastic, happy trend~!
"let us empty every cage..." ♥ =^..^-
____________________
GREAT NEWS! The Churubusco Public Library has purchased copies of Secrets of an Old Typewriter to have on the shelves there - so exciting! Order your own copy at the below links...
____________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
September 11, 2012
yep, the big picture is quite a lot to take in
[In response to "Black Dog Syndrome" - click here or here to read.]
ISN'T THE HUMAN BRAIN WIRED TO "think" AND "reason"? WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP ALL PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TO HELP SAVE LIVES? WHEN YOU FIGURE THAT OUT, GET BACK WITH ME! ;D
as anne frank wrote..."i still believe at heart people are good..." (paraphrased) we can only hope...
we "lay waste our hours...getting and spending"... yep, the big picture is quite a lot to take in, but once we see it, it is amazingly simple...simplistic....strangely uncomplicated....there is kindness or there is no kindness...there is killing or there is NOKILL. too simple and pure for human understanding evidently.
so precious animals are...so eager...i die a little more every day...my fingertips are raw...my wrists ache and my legs are shot from running after my own menagerie...i love them all...even faces in photographs...they all matter. what cures depression? knowing we are the link to save these lives...and we can do something through the tears clouding up our eyes...i cry every day..and type...and feed cats and dogs and pat heads and scratch behind ears...i never ever stop. i never shall.
we all matter...we really do. and those who are born must be appreciated...all forms of life are sacred. doubletalk is too prolific these days...a direct shot...mind to mind and heart to heart...all the shooting that is allowed...direct communication.
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From Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette - more coverage of the paperback release of "Secrets of an Old Typewriter"! Click here.
"SEXTON CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY: Author Susie Duncan Sexton ('Secrets of an Old Typewriter') of Columbia City will celebrate her one-year anniversary of eBook. The book is available at Amazon.com and www.open-bks.com."
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LOVE THESE COMMENTS! From Australian friend Kelly McBride regarding the paperback release of Secrets of an Old Typewriter: "[Roy], good on your mum! Your mum is writing stuff including animal rights, while E.L.James has Christian & Ana attending a fundraising dinner eating Foie Gras in 50 Shades Darker."
And from theatre critic Davi Napoleon in response to the above blog entry: "Alas, the human brain doesn't appear to be wired to reason. We seem to be wired to respond well to manipulation, to be led to slaughter. Obama shouldn't have to campaign, for instance, unless a strong third party candidate comes on the scene. If we were a reasonable species, the bottom 99% would automatically vote for him." [Please check out Davi's great facebook page Theater Talk and become a fan today!]
From Tressa Marie: "Wonderful blog...and I totally agree that 'those who are born must be appreciated...all forms of life are sacred.' When all of mankind finally realizes this then maybe things for our animal friends will finally start to change!"
From Drex Morton: "I read your insights like a devotional! Thanks, Susie."
Thanks, Kelly, Tressa, Drex, and Davi!
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
ISN'T THE HUMAN BRAIN WIRED TO "think" AND "reason"? WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP ALL PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TO HELP SAVE LIVES? WHEN YOU FIGURE THAT OUT, GET BACK WITH ME! ;D
as anne frank wrote..."i still believe at heart people are good..." (paraphrased) we can only hope...
we "lay waste our hours...getting and spending"... yep, the big picture is quite a lot to take in, but once we see it, it is amazingly simple...simplistic....strangely uncomplicated....there is kindness or there is no kindness...there is killing or there is NOKILL. too simple and pure for human understanding evidently.
so precious animals are...so eager...i die a little more every day...my fingertips are raw...my wrists ache and my legs are shot from running after my own menagerie...i love them all...even faces in photographs...they all matter. what cures depression? knowing we are the link to save these lives...and we can do something through the tears clouding up our eyes...i cry every day..and type...and feed cats and dogs and pat heads and scratch behind ears...i never ever stop. i never shall.
we all matter...we really do. and those who are born must be appreciated...all forms of life are sacred. doubletalk is too prolific these days...a direct shot...mind to mind and heart to heart...all the shooting that is allowed...direct communication.
____________________
From Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette - more coverage of the paperback release of "Secrets of an Old Typewriter"! Click here.
"SEXTON CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY: Author Susie Duncan Sexton ('Secrets of an Old Typewriter') of Columbia City will celebrate her one-year anniversary of eBook. The book is available at Amazon.com and www.open-bks.com."
____________________
LOVE THESE COMMENTS! From Australian friend Kelly McBride regarding the paperback release of Secrets of an Old Typewriter: "[Roy], good on your mum! Your mum is writing stuff including animal rights, while E.L.James has Christian & Ana attending a fundraising dinner eating Foie Gras in 50 Shades Darker."
And from theatre critic Davi Napoleon in response to the above blog entry: "Alas, the human brain doesn't appear to be wired to reason. We seem to be wired to respond well to manipulation, to be led to slaughter. Obama shouldn't have to campaign, for instance, unless a strong third party candidate comes on the scene. If we were a reasonable species, the bottom 99% would automatically vote for him." [Please check out Davi's great facebook page Theater Talk and become a fan today!]
From Tressa Marie: "Wonderful blog...and I totally agree that 'those who are born must be appreciated...all forms of life are sacred.' When all of mankind finally realizes this then maybe things for our animal friends will finally start to change!"
From Drex Morton: "I read your insights like a devotional! Thanks, Susie."
Thanks, Kelly, Tressa, Drex, and Davi!
____________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
September 9, 2012
From BroadwayWorld.com: Open Books Releases Print Edition of Susie Duncan Sexton's SECRETS OF AN OLD TYPEWRITER
Just wanted to share - enjoy! More great press for the paperback release of my book "Secrets of an Old Typewriter" - this time from BroadwayWorld.com - love that site!
Here is an excerpt from the article: [Susie's son Roy] notes, “I am so proud of my mom. She is doing what she loves. She has put together a book that runs the gamut from classic film and Howdy Doody and Playhouse 90 to her time on the stage (Wagon Wheel, Arena Dinner, and First Pres theatres) to animal rights and religious freedom to Russell Crowe and Susan Boyle and back again…yet it is all thematically coherent and an absolute pleasure to read.”
Read the full article by clicking here!
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
Here is an excerpt from the article: [Susie's son Roy] notes, “I am so proud of my mom. She is doing what she loves. She has put together a book that runs the gamut from classic film and Howdy Doody and Playhouse 90 to her time on the stage (Wagon Wheel, Arena Dinner, and First Pres theatres) to animal rights and religious freedom to Russell Crowe and Susan Boyle and back again…yet it is all thematically coherent and an absolute pleasure to read.”
Read the full article by clicking here!
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
September 6, 2012
Grand finale of Sheepshead Bay on The Colin Lively Show ... PLUS, North Carolina bookseller to carry Secrets of an Old Typewriter
The epic conclusion of Sheepshead Bay Boulevard! Listen to the archive recording at this link.
In the prior week...well...everyone died, leaving only Nora (Susie Sexton) amidst the carnage. So what did that mean for Episode Thirteen, the grand guignol grand finale? Who knows! But listen to find out!
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
ALSO, exciting news from my publisher! My book Secrets of an Old Typewriter is going to be carried by Literary Bookpost, a beautiful independent store in North Carolina. Hopefully the first of many! Check out their site - click here.
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Coverage of the paperback release of Secrets from the Columbia City Post and Mail newspaper. [View the scanned version here]...
Midwestern Author Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of eBook with Global Print Run
Columbia City, Indiana – When Hoosier writer Susie Duncan Sexton inherited an old IBM computer from her late, beloved sister Sarah, she had no idea just a few years later she would be a published author. “It’s true that playing with email and writing letters to the editor [primarily referencing the primary and presidential election of 2008] helped me re-discover my voice. My mother loved to write throughout my childhood and beyond, and we always had books and magazines and great conversation in our home. I passed that on to my son, but it had been awhile since I had put pen to paper or, in this case, fingers to keyboard.”
Flash forward a few years later to September 2011. Open Books published Sexton’s first book, a collection of memoir-style essays, Secrets of an Old Typewriter. From the Open Books’ website: “This book may be about small town life, but the ideas contained within it are expansive. The written accounts of the life of a ‘smart and sassy small town girl’ are as urbane as those of any city dweller. From ’50s and ’60s nostalgia to modern-day values, and from the drama and insight of America’s great books and motion pictures to politics, religion and animal rights, Susie Duncan Sexton’s ‘secrets’ always hit the mark with unexpected candor and a unique perspective.”
Melissa McIntyre, a librarian at New Mexico State University at Alamogordo, wrote in her review of the book, "It was an enjoyable read. Something to curl up on the front porch and enjoy a crisp fall morning with…engrossing enough to keep me captivated page after page.” Martin L. Davis II added as part of his review on Amazon, "I was reminded of Vonnegut...at times poignant, scathing, & compassionate. It is worth a second read,” with J.A. Hernandez of jensreview.com noting, "Poetic, energetic. Sentimental, temperamental.”
Now, one year after the initial release, Open Books, due to popular demand, is augmenting the book’s successful digital distribution with a print edition, available worldwide through various retailers, including Amazon.com and the publisher’s website. “It’s funny,” Sexton remarks, “that while this digital age of social media and blogging brought me back to writing, I am most overjoyed that I shall now get to hold this book in my hands. I love my Kindle and iPad, but there is nothing like turning the pages of a book, sharing it with others, and being able to tuck it into one of my shelves…nestled beside works of my favorite authors. I guess I shall always be that nostalgic Baby Boomer at heart.”
Sexton writes two monthly columns (one for hometown newsblog Talk of the Town and the other for the Columbia City Post and Mail newspaper) and maintains a prolific presence on her Goodreads’ author profile blog and various Facebook fan pages. She comments, “I would like to thank my son Roy who has introduced all of these worlds to me. I grew up in a small town, but I always found the power of film and television and literature so transporting. I find that to be true now with Facebook and other sites. I can meet like-minded souls the world over and have these great virtual ‘cocktail party conversations’ online, among new friends in Ireland or Australia and my next door neighbors.”
Roy Sexton, son of Don and Susie, grew up in Columbia City and now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he serves as vice president of marketing and planning for the law firm Trott & Trott, P.C. and has helped found a theatre company there, The Penny Seats. He holds degrees from Wabash College, Ohio State, and the University of Michigan. He notes, “I am so proud of my mom. She is doing what she loves. She has put together a book that runs the gamut from classic film and Howdy Doody and Playhouse 90 to her time on the stage (Wagon Wheel, Arena Dinner, and First Pres theatres) to animal rights and religious freedom to Russell Crowe and Susan Boyle and back again…yet it is all thematically coherent and an absolute pleasure to read.”
Susie grew up in Columbia City, Indiana, and lived for a couple of decades in nearby Fort Wayne. After graduating twelfth in her class at Ball State University (winning the first ever John R. Emens award for “most outstanding senior”), she returned with her husband Don (who is originally from Shelbyville, Indiana) to her hometown where she has worked as a teacher, a publicist, museum curator, and a health lecturer. Describing her writing, Susie says, “I willingly share nostalgic trips to the past as I have now achieved such an old age that no one remains who can question the authenticity of my memory of places, people and events that were very much never what they were cracked up to be!” Susie writes extensively about her youth and adulthood in Indiana, referencing many beloved Hoosier places and figures from the 1950s to today.
Fellow author Donald O’Donovan sums up the appeal of Sexton’s first book nicely, “I'm going to confess that I didn't read Secrets from cover to cover, just like that. I picked an episode at random, then another, then another and another. I think the book is meant to be read that way, informally, as if you were gabbing with the author over the back fence. Secrets of an Old Typewriter is a scintillating pastiche of memories, anecdotes and portraits that the author has quilted together in a very agreeable way.”
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Secrets of an Old Typewriter is now available in paperback via the publisher's website at www.open-bks.com and via Amazon.com!
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Some neat comments in response to the above article - thanks, all!
Patty Golden: "I love your mother, Roy!"
Paul Clifford Schrade: "I have a great admiration for Susie the woman and also as a writer who can dip her roving eyes in so much sweet nostalgia and keep the best part of America so vibrantly alive! Interesting that the cyber world that has brought Susie alive has been a Berlin wall for me and holds me back, but I shout with all my heart, Susie dear...citizen extraordinaire...I'm so glad you were emancipated!!!...you are such a delight as a writer and a person that you must face the risk of winding up in the Smithsonian! You are my female Charles Kuralt! {Would rather tour the back roads of America with you instead of Charles, though}"
Donald O'Donovan: "Congrats on the print copy, Susie. I agree that a book really needs to be someTHING that you can hold in your hands, carry around with you and pass from hand to hand. And, of course, make notes in the margins!"
Pat Evanatz-Mossburg: "I got her book in the mail yesterday!! Looking forward to sitting down with a cup of coffee and her book this weekend!"
Mark Ross: "Great news, Susie! I see many people young and old (like us!) reading books while traveling on the NYC transit system as well as elsewhere and that adds up to a lot of people, so... the print edition of your book's gonna do just fine, yes! Happy for you my dear. All the best! ♥"
Pamela Forbus: "I have said the exact thing to many! FB has a magical way of bringing like minded people and kindred spirits from all over the world together! Absolutely, a magnificent experience to behold! Today's technological possibilities are truly astounding! ! Thank you, Roy!"
Bob Kellogg: "Roy, what a great article! I know you must be very proud of your Mom. And, I can just see your Granddad Roy looking down with that infectious smile and great pride. He had a particular posture and attitude when he was proud of something, and I can see him now."
Tressa Marie: "I agree with all the above comments about you Susie! You are truly a wonderful, amazing, compassionate lady and an inspiration to many. Much admiration and respect to you always! Also love, thanks and best wishes ♥ xxxx ♥"
Diane Karen Doucette: "Susie, I don't know you, but with all these accolades I'm sure I would enjoy meeting you for tea :)"
Bev Sexton: "Roy has sent me material in regard to your latest. I have not read it yet....but plan to as soon as possible. Congratulations!"
Irmgard Guters: "Your mom is an extraordinary person, Roy! I endorse that quote 100%!"
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Susie, I'm ready to come and paint your porch and my cup or two of coffee and that nice chat...♥♥♥ love you girl so glad I know you...Thank you, Roy, again for being such a great son to a wonderful woman inside and out."
Ramona Sue Zachary: "Well, looks like I am going to have to make a purchase, AND have my local library buy it as well!!!"
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
In the prior week...well...everyone died, leaving only Nora (Susie Sexton) amidst the carnage. So what did that mean for Episode Thirteen, the grand guignol grand finale? Who knows! But listen to find out!
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
ALSO, exciting news from my publisher! My book Secrets of an Old Typewriter is going to be carried by Literary Bookpost, a beautiful independent store in North Carolina. Hopefully the first of many! Check out their site - click here.
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Coverage of the paperback release of Secrets from the Columbia City Post and Mail newspaper. [View the scanned version here]...
Midwestern Author Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of eBook with Global Print Run
Columbia City, Indiana – When Hoosier writer Susie Duncan Sexton inherited an old IBM computer from her late, beloved sister Sarah, she had no idea just a few years later she would be a published author. “It’s true that playing with email and writing letters to the editor [primarily referencing the primary and presidential election of 2008] helped me re-discover my voice. My mother loved to write throughout my childhood and beyond, and we always had books and magazines and great conversation in our home. I passed that on to my son, but it had been awhile since I had put pen to paper or, in this case, fingers to keyboard.”
Flash forward a few years later to September 2011. Open Books published Sexton’s first book, a collection of memoir-style essays, Secrets of an Old Typewriter. From the Open Books’ website: “This book may be about small town life, but the ideas contained within it are expansive. The written accounts of the life of a ‘smart and sassy small town girl’ are as urbane as those of any city dweller. From ’50s and ’60s nostalgia to modern-day values, and from the drama and insight of America’s great books and motion pictures to politics, religion and animal rights, Susie Duncan Sexton’s ‘secrets’ always hit the mark with unexpected candor and a unique perspective.”
Melissa McIntyre, a librarian at New Mexico State University at Alamogordo, wrote in her review of the book, "It was an enjoyable read. Something to curl up on the front porch and enjoy a crisp fall morning with…engrossing enough to keep me captivated page after page.” Martin L. Davis II added as part of his review on Amazon, "I was reminded of Vonnegut...at times poignant, scathing, & compassionate. It is worth a second read,” with J.A. Hernandez of jensreview.com noting, "Poetic, energetic. Sentimental, temperamental.”
Now, one year after the initial release, Open Books, due to popular demand, is augmenting the book’s successful digital distribution with a print edition, available worldwide through various retailers, including Amazon.com and the publisher’s website. “It’s funny,” Sexton remarks, “that while this digital age of social media and blogging brought me back to writing, I am most overjoyed that I shall now get to hold this book in my hands. I love my Kindle and iPad, but there is nothing like turning the pages of a book, sharing it with others, and being able to tuck it into one of my shelves…nestled beside works of my favorite authors. I guess I shall always be that nostalgic Baby Boomer at heart.”
Sexton writes two monthly columns (one for hometown newsblog Talk of the Town and the other for the Columbia City Post and Mail newspaper) and maintains a prolific presence on her Goodreads’ author profile blog and various Facebook fan pages. She comments, “I would like to thank my son Roy who has introduced all of these worlds to me. I grew up in a small town, but I always found the power of film and television and literature so transporting. I find that to be true now with Facebook and other sites. I can meet like-minded souls the world over and have these great virtual ‘cocktail party conversations’ online, among new friends in Ireland or Australia and my next door neighbors.”
Roy Sexton, son of Don and Susie, grew up in Columbia City and now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he serves as vice president of marketing and planning for the law firm Trott & Trott, P.C. and has helped found a theatre company there, The Penny Seats. He holds degrees from Wabash College, Ohio State, and the University of Michigan. He notes, “I am so proud of my mom. She is doing what she loves. She has put together a book that runs the gamut from classic film and Howdy Doody and Playhouse 90 to her time on the stage (Wagon Wheel, Arena Dinner, and First Pres theatres) to animal rights and religious freedom to Russell Crowe and Susan Boyle and back again…yet it is all thematically coherent and an absolute pleasure to read.”
Susie grew up in Columbia City, Indiana, and lived for a couple of decades in nearby Fort Wayne. After graduating twelfth in her class at Ball State University (winning the first ever John R. Emens award for “most outstanding senior”), she returned with her husband Don (who is originally from Shelbyville, Indiana) to her hometown where she has worked as a teacher, a publicist, museum curator, and a health lecturer. Describing her writing, Susie says, “I willingly share nostalgic trips to the past as I have now achieved such an old age that no one remains who can question the authenticity of my memory of places, people and events that were very much never what they were cracked up to be!” Susie writes extensively about her youth and adulthood in Indiana, referencing many beloved Hoosier places and figures from the 1950s to today.
Fellow author Donald O’Donovan sums up the appeal of Sexton’s first book nicely, “I'm going to confess that I didn't read Secrets from cover to cover, just like that. I picked an episode at random, then another, then another and another. I think the book is meant to be read that way, informally, as if you were gabbing with the author over the back fence. Secrets of an Old Typewriter is a scintillating pastiche of memories, anecdotes and portraits that the author has quilted together in a very agreeable way.”
_______________________
Secrets of an Old Typewriter is now available in paperback via the publisher's website at www.open-bks.com and via Amazon.com!
_______________________
Some neat comments in response to the above article - thanks, all!
Patty Golden: "I love your mother, Roy!"
Paul Clifford Schrade: "I have a great admiration for Susie the woman and also as a writer who can dip her roving eyes in so much sweet nostalgia and keep the best part of America so vibrantly alive! Interesting that the cyber world that has brought Susie alive has been a Berlin wall for me and holds me back, but I shout with all my heart, Susie dear...citizen extraordinaire...I'm so glad you were emancipated!!!...you are such a delight as a writer and a person that you must face the risk of winding up in the Smithsonian! You are my female Charles Kuralt! {Would rather tour the back roads of America with you instead of Charles, though}"
Donald O'Donovan: "Congrats on the print copy, Susie. I agree that a book really needs to be someTHING that you can hold in your hands, carry around with you and pass from hand to hand. And, of course, make notes in the margins!"
Pat Evanatz-Mossburg: "I got her book in the mail yesterday!! Looking forward to sitting down with a cup of coffee and her book this weekend!"
Mark Ross: "Great news, Susie! I see many people young and old (like us!) reading books while traveling on the NYC transit system as well as elsewhere and that adds up to a lot of people, so... the print edition of your book's gonna do just fine, yes! Happy for you my dear. All the best! ♥"
Pamela Forbus: "I have said the exact thing to many! FB has a magical way of bringing like minded people and kindred spirits from all over the world together! Absolutely, a magnificent experience to behold! Today's technological possibilities are truly astounding! ! Thank you, Roy!"
Bob Kellogg: "Roy, what a great article! I know you must be very proud of your Mom. And, I can just see your Granddad Roy looking down with that infectious smile and great pride. He had a particular posture and attitude when he was proud of something, and I can see him now."
Tressa Marie: "I agree with all the above comments about you Susie! You are truly a wonderful, amazing, compassionate lady and an inspiration to many. Much admiration and respect to you always! Also love, thanks and best wishes ♥ xxxx ♥"
Diane Karen Doucette: "Susie, I don't know you, but with all these accolades I'm sure I would enjoy meeting you for tea :)"
Bev Sexton: "Roy has sent me material in regard to your latest. I have not read it yet....but plan to as soon as possible. Congratulations!"
Irmgard Guters: "Your mom is an extraordinary person, Roy! I endorse that quote 100%!"
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Susie, I'm ready to come and paint your porch and my cup or two of coffee and that nice chat...♥♥♥ love you girl so glad I know you...Thank you, Roy, again for being such a great son to a wonderful woman inside and out."
Ramona Sue Zachary: "Well, looks like I am going to have to make a purchase, AND have my local library buy it as well!!!"
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
September 3, 2012
Secrets of an Old Typewriter - Print Edition (Paperback) Now Available in Honor of One-Year Anniversary
very excited to announce that, in honor of the one-year anniversary of the digital release of my book "Secrets of an Old Typewriter," a print edition (paperback) is now available via the publisher's website at www.open-bks.com and via Amazon.com!
sharing my adventures and impressions while experiencing and observing the 50s and 60s...a joyous and meaningful and poignant era in which to be "coming of age"... i watched, participated, cried and laughed, succeeded and failed -- savoring each moment...i continue at this present second to apply lessons learned from that very unique time...
thanks, all, for these wonderful comments:
Paul Clifford Schrade: "A small time girl perhaps..but that girl has a woman's ideas of the world at large and worth listening to!!! An unremittingly brave and tireless woman named simply Susie. Perhaps she should have been named Joan of Arc!"
Susan Alcott Jardine: "Glad to hear the good news. I will purchase one, as I don't own an e-reader. Congratulations, Susie."
Cara Sam Blount: "Congrats, Susie!"
Pat Evanatz-Mossburg: "Just ordered it and should get it by the end of the week. I'll have to get Susie to sign it!
Pat Heinbaugh: "Yaaaaahoooooo....'THE' book in print.....proud of you, Susie....."
Drex Morton: "Brava, Susie... I wish you every success with your continued sales. Your marketing strategy is being nurtured by none other than the 'media maestro' we respect & love."
Anyone who has ever lived in a small town certainly knows that secrets are sometimes not so secret.
Susie Duncan Sexton has lived her entire life in a small town—indeed, in the same house where she grew up. As an adult, she taught at the same grammar school that she attended as a child, and many of the relationships she cultivated while growing up, including her marriage, have endured over the years. Always one to document the present and offer her sometimes unorthodox ideas and opinions, Susie Duncan Sexton has tickled the keys of her trusty old typewriter for nearly five decades, and now that venerable machine is ready to reveal its secrets.
This book may be about small town life, but the ideas contained within it are expansive. The written accounts of the life of a ‘smart and sassy small town girl’ are as urbane as those of any city dweller. From ’50s and ’60s nostalgia to modern-day values, and from the drama and insight of America’s great books and motion pictures to politics, religion and animal rights, Susie Duncan Sexton’s ‘secrets’ always hit the mark with unexpected candor and a unique perspective.
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
sharing my adventures and impressions while experiencing and observing the 50s and 60s...a joyous and meaningful and poignant era in which to be "coming of age"... i watched, participated, cried and laughed, succeeded and failed -- savoring each moment...i continue at this present second to apply lessons learned from that very unique time...
thanks, all, for these wonderful comments:
Paul Clifford Schrade: "A small time girl perhaps..but that girl has a woman's ideas of the world at large and worth listening to!!! An unremittingly brave and tireless woman named simply Susie. Perhaps she should have been named Joan of Arc!"
Susan Alcott Jardine: "Glad to hear the good news. I will purchase one, as I don't own an e-reader. Congratulations, Susie."
Cara Sam Blount: "Congrats, Susie!"
Pat Evanatz-Mossburg: "Just ordered it and should get it by the end of the week. I'll have to get Susie to sign it!
Pat Heinbaugh: "Yaaaaahoooooo....'THE' book in print.....proud of you, Susie....."
Drex Morton: "Brava, Susie... I wish you every success with your continued sales. Your marketing strategy is being nurtured by none other than the 'media maestro' we respect & love."
Anyone who has ever lived in a small town certainly knows that secrets are sometimes not so secret.
Susie Duncan Sexton has lived her entire life in a small town—indeed, in the same house where she grew up. As an adult, she taught at the same grammar school that she attended as a child, and many of the relationships she cultivated while growing up, including her marriage, have endured over the years. Always one to document the present and offer her sometimes unorthodox ideas and opinions, Susie Duncan Sexton has tickled the keys of her trusty old typewriter for nearly five decades, and now that venerable machine is ready to reveal its secrets.
This book may be about small town life, but the ideas contained within it are expansive. The written accounts of the life of a ‘smart and sassy small town girl’ are as urbane as those of any city dweller. From ’50s and ’60s nostalgia to modern-day values, and from the drama and insight of America’s great books and motion pictures to politics, religion and animal rights, Susie Duncan Sexton’s ‘secrets’ always hit the mark with unexpected candor and a unique perspective.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
August 31, 2012
Episode twelve of Sheepshead Bay Boulevard on The Colin Lively Show
Thousands of radio listeners can't be wrong! Don't miss out! Only two more episodes left!!
Catch me and fellow author Danny Kemp (author of The Desolate Garden), entertainer and radio personality Judy Stadt, free-spirited Joshua Plant, and our incomparable host Colin on the Colin Lively Show! Listen at this link.
Colin writes:
Read more at this link...and become a fan of The Colin Lively Show!
Also, on this episode: Louisa Bradshaw commands the stage for a full 90 minutes as she reveals the tortured life, not of Marilyn Monroe, but of Norma Jean Baker. Imagine oneself being trapped inside a fictional character. Marilyn Monroe was not a person, but a persona. Norma Jean was an actor playing an actor. Did Norma Jean murder Marilyn to finally be free?
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
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loving this feedback on my latest "Homeward Angle" column
(click here to read about "This Happily Haunted House")...
Bab Nicholson: "Absolutely love this column! Susie definitely has a gift for writing. Her columns characters always come alive. Makes me feel like I once lived in her town in my early years. Like I knew of the characters she writes about from the past."
Deborah Fields Perez: "Just finished reading it! Love the way she tells a story!"
Joshua Plant: "How wonderful!"
Christopher Jordan: "I loved every word. Thanks for always thinking of me. :)"
Colin Lively: "Roy, you have sprung from an amazing person. I have friends I would walk through fire for that I have met and only know through Facebook and Susie is one of those. I am very happy to know her. It is a difficult life when a person sees right past the insanity that is such a pandemic that being totally mad becomes normal."
Tressa Marie: "Really wonderful and so well written! Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Respect, appreciation and love to you always! ♥"
Laurie LaRue Bills: "Always look forward to your writing, postings and thoughts! Love you!!!!"
Paul Clifford Schrade: "Susie is the combination of Garrison Keillor, Charles Kuralt and Twain all mixed together in a delicious pot-pourri. Grab her hand and follow her over America's back roads and at the end of your trip,you'll be a darn-sight prouder of this land of yours!"
Drex Morton: "Thank you, Susie, for crowning a late Summer evening with your powerful and lyrical prose... As full moon - a blue moon, I understand, rises heavenward... It looks damn 'cheddar-y' to me... Like the ghosts that you and 'Cosmo' have been privileged to cherish...Maybe Neil Armstrong is out there - somewhere - warming the barren hearth! ;)"
thank you, all - these words mean SO much to me!
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thoughts on communicating with our animal friends...
my babies respond better to lengthy explanations from me than when i just shout one word like SIT or STAY or FETCH...seriously, they like to know WHY they should do that stuff like WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME IF I DO COOPERATE? i swear by that...unless they just get tickled that i sound like charlie brown's mother or teacher? blah blah blah blah... know what i mean? my babies adore the sound of my voice! ;D i truly believe that! you are a hoot!!! ♥~!~!!
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can't help myself...thoughts on the elephant convention...
oh, i just sat on a very tall stool in the middle of the living room...remember that we sawed our couch in two earlier in the summer and wood chipped it BTW -- and i helped mitt get through his speech. clint we shall not even discuss due to charges of ageism which could be filed if we go there. then colbert soothed my soul.
mitt is unfortunately associated with the republican "party" or i could honestly sorta like the fellow...but not beaver "paul ryan" van cleaver. should these two accidentally achieve victory in november, unleashed upon us will be all sorts of small town boys who have sold their souls to the devil that was the oral roberts tradition and we are doomed. family-oriented, starched-shirted, chicken sandwich chewing, baby-embracing, ball-handling, deer-hunting, posturing twits.
(do not tell anyone i wrote that sentence that i closed with...because these "lord of the flies" lads will be totally in charge as our roman empire finally goes up in blazes. and we WILL be chinese in record time...and reduced to birthing one child per family... which possibly might be a good thing?)
other than that, i'm fine....this could all work out. my glass is half...full of vacuousness.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
Catch me and fellow author Danny Kemp (author of The Desolate Garden), entertainer and radio personality Judy Stadt, free-spirited Joshua Plant, and our incomparable host Colin on the Colin Lively Show! Listen at this link.
Colin writes:
It’s Nora’s big day...AT LAST the lingerie queen is making her comeback, and every one will be there. The Press. The Photographers. The Bloggers. Rumors flying that Ryan Seacrest, himself, will be there. She has employed that uber-fabulous Colin Lively to do her hair, and celebrity makeup artist, Christopher Drummond is doing her makeup.
Elegante Car Service Black Lincoln Continental will pull up in front of Lincoln Center at exactly 2 pm on Friday. First Max von Schtick will step out of the car onto the Red Carpet. Max, once, maybe still, the most dazzlingly handsome man in New York City, has been Nora’s loyal companion, and sole beneficiary of her estate. People say he is even better looking than Tyrone Power, and I believe that to be so. Max will be wearing a Navy Blue Brioni suit and a dark Oxblood shoes from none other than Belgian Shoes.
Then Nora will gracefully step from the limousine, amidst a blaze of flashbulbs and WELCOME BACK NORA screams from all of the eagerly awaiting fashion victims...
Read more at this link...and become a fan of The Colin Lively Show!
Also, on this episode: Louisa Bradshaw commands the stage for a full 90 minutes as she reveals the tortured life, not of Marilyn Monroe, but of Norma Jean Baker. Imagine oneself being trapped inside a fictional character. Marilyn Monroe was not a person, but a persona. Norma Jean was an actor playing an actor. Did Norma Jean murder Marilyn to finally be free?
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
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loving this feedback on my latest "Homeward Angle" column
(click here to read about "This Happily Haunted House")...
Bab Nicholson: "Absolutely love this column! Susie definitely has a gift for writing. Her columns characters always come alive. Makes me feel like I once lived in her town in my early years. Like I knew of the characters she writes about from the past."
Deborah Fields Perez: "Just finished reading it! Love the way she tells a story!"
Joshua Plant: "How wonderful!"
Christopher Jordan: "I loved every word. Thanks for always thinking of me. :)"
Colin Lively: "Roy, you have sprung from an amazing person. I have friends I would walk through fire for that I have met and only know through Facebook and Susie is one of those. I am very happy to know her. It is a difficult life when a person sees right past the insanity that is such a pandemic that being totally mad becomes normal."
Tressa Marie: "Really wonderful and so well written! Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Respect, appreciation and love to you always! ♥"
Laurie LaRue Bills: "Always look forward to your writing, postings and thoughts! Love you!!!!"
Paul Clifford Schrade: "Susie is the combination of Garrison Keillor, Charles Kuralt and Twain all mixed together in a delicious pot-pourri. Grab her hand and follow her over America's back roads and at the end of your trip,you'll be a darn-sight prouder of this land of yours!"
Drex Morton: "Thank you, Susie, for crowning a late Summer evening with your powerful and lyrical prose... As full moon - a blue moon, I understand, rises heavenward... It looks damn 'cheddar-y' to me... Like the ghosts that you and 'Cosmo' have been privileged to cherish...Maybe Neil Armstrong is out there - somewhere - warming the barren hearth! ;)"
thank you, all - these words mean SO much to me!
_______________________
thoughts on communicating with our animal friends...
my babies respond better to lengthy explanations from me than when i just shout one word like SIT or STAY or FETCH...seriously, they like to know WHY they should do that stuff like WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME IF I DO COOPERATE? i swear by that...unless they just get tickled that i sound like charlie brown's mother or teacher? blah blah blah blah... know what i mean? my babies adore the sound of my voice! ;D i truly believe that! you are a hoot!!! ♥~!~!!
_______________________
can't help myself...thoughts on the elephant convention...
oh, i just sat on a very tall stool in the middle of the living room...remember that we sawed our couch in two earlier in the summer and wood chipped it BTW -- and i helped mitt get through his speech. clint we shall not even discuss due to charges of ageism which could be filed if we go there. then colbert soothed my soul.
mitt is unfortunately associated with the republican "party" or i could honestly sorta like the fellow...but not beaver "paul ryan" van cleaver. should these two accidentally achieve victory in november, unleashed upon us will be all sorts of small town boys who have sold their souls to the devil that was the oral roberts tradition and we are doomed. family-oriented, starched-shirted, chicken sandwich chewing, baby-embracing, ball-handling, deer-hunting, posturing twits.
(do not tell anyone i wrote that sentence that i closed with...because these "lord of the flies" lads will be totally in charge as our roman empire finally goes up in blazes. and we WILL be chinese in record time...and reduced to birthing one child per family... which possibly might be a good thing?)
other than that, i'm fine....this could all work out. my glass is half...full of vacuousness.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
August 30, 2012
Homeward Angle: THIS HAPPILY HAUNTED HOUSE
Latest "Homeward Angle" column...view original column and photos here...
Each month delivers the angst of writer's block, i.e. seeking a column idea. What story do I tell that I have not already shared? My preference, for the approach of September, focused on animals' rights to thrive until old age, via a treatise heavily populated with many like-minded heroes I encounter in my activism. Local hunters and farmers might bite me, mount my head on a wall, or package me into hamburger. I am not in the mood for controversy. I prefer to submit a love letter to the finest humans whom I ever met and who graced this fortunate town with their presence for decades.
As the dearest wedding photograph in history gradually fades alongside a flowery, yellowing marriage certificate filled with rules and regulations written in calligraphy -- both keepsakes tucked into a music box which creaks out "Camelot" upon the opening of its lid, reverent memories of my parents re-emerge. Then I drum my fingers atop the kitchen table as I await my husband's backing out my 20 year old automobile to take to Reeg's for its oil change. The endless mystifying racket reminds me of my breakable, manic, nutty Jerry Lewis record, called "The Noisy Eater", which I wore out as a kid. I lean toward the screened window and get greeted with, "Just moving and scooting 'Jim Fleck's garbage cans' (a reference to our former city 'chief') so that I can drive this car out my own driveway." Truth be told, Don actually ran for mayor prompted by his ire over that very topic…garish Tupper-ware type receptacles no longer allowed in the alleys but now those bold, electric-blue eyesores instead stand at sloppy attention in front of our houses along the tree-lined streets.
Now, back at the computer to write of an elopement on September 18 of 1930 and a young couple of individuals starting life together in the Carolinas, I reach out to capture two frisky, feisty, plucky ghosts named Roy and Edna. On the fingers of one hand I calculate the number of times I clashed with either one or the other or, worse, that instant united front which they masterfully conjured up when faced with the sassiness of an errant child. And contrary to the views of some rotten publicists, I do not answer to misguided identifications as either "spoiled" or "brat". I am -- always have been -- one respectful kid who enjoyed a very special relationship with my parents. The three of us -- for 10 years joined at the hips (my married sisters in their own houses) -- had an absolute ball! I was blessed to realize that fact in real time. All mine!
My "folks" -- an apt, quaint, typically Southern reference --really still should be alive to preen for their 82nd anniversary picture…but "posing" did not fit their style. My mom detested corsages, tore up pix of herself, and possessed the talent to have outwritten Margaret Mitchell, Lillian Hellman, or Dorothy Parker. She preferred to remain unnoticed yet occasionally penned perfect poetry for which she once received a personal, hand-written "thank you" note from Jacqueline Kennedy. My dad died at the exact age that every Duncan dies…from a cerebral hemorrhage which is an appropriately rugged Scotsman's usual adieu to this world. Endure what life hands you; think independently; live with gusto; never back down; laugh often and exit quickly one fine day, with little fanfare, singing, "…And Ah'll be in Scotlan' afore ye…"! ("Loch Lomond") Kind, beautiful individuals.
Neither phony nor stereotypical, my parents disagreed often, attended church regularly for networking and spiritual rejuvenation with a minimal dose of dogma, quietly performed good deeds, valued and strengthened family ties yet at a reasonable distance, maintained serious friendships throughout their lifetimes, and only neared divorce court when my dad bought a new car without permission or "adopted" pets without consultation or engaged in small downtown store ownership/co-management with "Snooks"/Edna which lasted about ten minutes. The "Corral" may be remembered by many of you. My dad paid dearly for offering Wranglers at an affordable price -- small town retailers do not enjoy competition no matter what they say. Our store paled in comparison to the Wal-Mart empire we all know and love presently. To this day, I borrow a treasured tip from my old man; when human beings behave like jack-asses, I simply diplomatically refer to such types as "damned peculiar" and move on with my life, brushing off my jeans while celebrating my genes!
Only a fool offers a template for marriage "between one man and one woman", such as might be dictated by spooky judges at a time-warped Salem Witch Trial; rather, I instead salute -- as I marvel at -- the collaboration between two determined, joyous, unique, unbiased, "live and let live" human beings setting an example which served me well when Mr. and Mrs. Duncan ruled my world and unto this very moment listening to Don lug trash containers about while CUSSing "a happy tune". Roy and Edna snuck away to become hitched only one year into The Great Depression -- weathering many storms. Both continue to live with me while dispensing their daily advice, whispered into my over-sized ears.
Although I view awards with disdain since such silly pageantry and subjective selectivity generally cause divisiveness, dissension, and jealousy, I wish to correct an unforgivable over-sight. Being as I daily function like Leo G. Carroll who starred as "Topper", I long to bestow upon Edna (Constance Bennett) and Roy Duncan (Cary Grant) a posthumous certification -- "Citizens of the Year"! My beloved, sometimes aggravating, personal apparitions flit about, encouraging thoughts, inspiring dreams, and motivating positive action while I live in their tiny little house to which I was brought as an infant from Ft. Wayne's Lutheran Hospital. Their steadiness, sense of fairness and fun, and lack of pretentiousness enhanced our community. So, I wish a happy anniversary to my very own delightful citizen-ghosts who eternally haunt me! I love every minute of it!
"So I'm a ditherer? Well, I'm jolly well going to dither then." ~ Cosmo Topper
"Topper (1937) is an American comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple." WIKIPEDIA
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
Each month delivers the angst of writer's block, i.e. seeking a column idea. What story do I tell that I have not already shared? My preference, for the approach of September, focused on animals' rights to thrive until old age, via a treatise heavily populated with many like-minded heroes I encounter in my activism. Local hunters and farmers might bite me, mount my head on a wall, or package me into hamburger. I am not in the mood for controversy. I prefer to submit a love letter to the finest humans whom I ever met and who graced this fortunate town with their presence for decades.
As the dearest wedding photograph in history gradually fades alongside a flowery, yellowing marriage certificate filled with rules and regulations written in calligraphy -- both keepsakes tucked into a music box which creaks out "Camelot" upon the opening of its lid, reverent memories of my parents re-emerge. Then I drum my fingers atop the kitchen table as I await my husband's backing out my 20 year old automobile to take to Reeg's for its oil change. The endless mystifying racket reminds me of my breakable, manic, nutty Jerry Lewis record, called "The Noisy Eater", which I wore out as a kid. I lean toward the screened window and get greeted with, "Just moving and scooting 'Jim Fleck's garbage cans' (a reference to our former city 'chief') so that I can drive this car out my own driveway." Truth be told, Don actually ran for mayor prompted by his ire over that very topic…garish Tupper-ware type receptacles no longer allowed in the alleys but now those bold, electric-blue eyesores instead stand at sloppy attention in front of our houses along the tree-lined streets.
Now, back at the computer to write of an elopement on September 18 of 1930 and a young couple of individuals starting life together in the Carolinas, I reach out to capture two frisky, feisty, plucky ghosts named Roy and Edna. On the fingers of one hand I calculate the number of times I clashed with either one or the other or, worse, that instant united front which they masterfully conjured up when faced with the sassiness of an errant child. And contrary to the views of some rotten publicists, I do not answer to misguided identifications as either "spoiled" or "brat". I am -- always have been -- one respectful kid who enjoyed a very special relationship with my parents. The three of us -- for 10 years joined at the hips (my married sisters in their own houses) -- had an absolute ball! I was blessed to realize that fact in real time. All mine!
My "folks" -- an apt, quaint, typically Southern reference --really still should be alive to preen for their 82nd anniversary picture…but "posing" did not fit their style. My mom detested corsages, tore up pix of herself, and possessed the talent to have outwritten Margaret Mitchell, Lillian Hellman, or Dorothy Parker. She preferred to remain unnoticed yet occasionally penned perfect poetry for which she once received a personal, hand-written "thank you" note from Jacqueline Kennedy. My dad died at the exact age that every Duncan dies…from a cerebral hemorrhage which is an appropriately rugged Scotsman's usual adieu to this world. Endure what life hands you; think independently; live with gusto; never back down; laugh often and exit quickly one fine day, with little fanfare, singing, "…And Ah'll be in Scotlan' afore ye…"! ("Loch Lomond") Kind, beautiful individuals.
Neither phony nor stereotypical, my parents disagreed often, attended church regularly for networking and spiritual rejuvenation with a minimal dose of dogma, quietly performed good deeds, valued and strengthened family ties yet at a reasonable distance, maintained serious friendships throughout their lifetimes, and only neared divorce court when my dad bought a new car without permission or "adopted" pets without consultation or engaged in small downtown store ownership/co-management with "Snooks"/Edna which lasted about ten minutes. The "Corral" may be remembered by many of you. My dad paid dearly for offering Wranglers at an affordable price -- small town retailers do not enjoy competition no matter what they say. Our store paled in comparison to the Wal-Mart empire we all know and love presently. To this day, I borrow a treasured tip from my old man; when human beings behave like jack-asses, I simply diplomatically refer to such types as "damned peculiar" and move on with my life, brushing off my jeans while celebrating my genes!
Only a fool offers a template for marriage "between one man and one woman", such as might be dictated by spooky judges at a time-warped Salem Witch Trial; rather, I instead salute -- as I marvel at -- the collaboration between two determined, joyous, unique, unbiased, "live and let live" human beings setting an example which served me well when Mr. and Mrs. Duncan ruled my world and unto this very moment listening to Don lug trash containers about while CUSSing "a happy tune". Roy and Edna snuck away to become hitched only one year into The Great Depression -- weathering many storms. Both continue to live with me while dispensing their daily advice, whispered into my over-sized ears.
Although I view awards with disdain since such silly pageantry and subjective selectivity generally cause divisiveness, dissension, and jealousy, I wish to correct an unforgivable over-sight. Being as I daily function like Leo G. Carroll who starred as "Topper", I long to bestow upon Edna (Constance Bennett) and Roy Duncan (Cary Grant) a posthumous certification -- "Citizens of the Year"! My beloved, sometimes aggravating, personal apparitions flit about, encouraging thoughts, inspiring dreams, and motivating positive action while I live in their tiny little house to which I was brought as an infant from Ft. Wayne's Lutheran Hospital. Their steadiness, sense of fairness and fun, and lack of pretentiousness enhanced our community. So, I wish a happy anniversary to my very own delightful citizen-ghosts who eternally haunt me! I love every minute of it!
"So I'm a ditherer? Well, I'm jolly well going to dither then." ~ Cosmo Topper
"Topper (1937) is an American comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple." WIKIPEDIA
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
August 29, 2012
....isn't that the best?
wrote the below in response to my wonderful friend Pamela Wainwright- Herrera who was able to use Facebook to help get a sweet pup adopted...
....isn't that the best? you should be really proud of those accomplishments on behalf of these precious ones we love so much. i am thrilled you and i are friends...
i love working with virtual animals as well as my own babies who i sometimes bark at when they are needing something. i get so busy typing away that i forget to remind them how much i love them and that because they are my "family" and such fun, that is why i help those we meet on facebook.
i feel sorry for folks who are missing out on working with animals. wishing we could recruit those very people to each adopt and empty the shelters. wow, i was just going to bed finally and saw your message and you have brightened my life with your kindness and your fabulous success. congrats on an important job well done! =^..^=
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love these comments!
Pamela Wainwright-Herrera: "Susie, you are a wonderful person with a heart of gold to help these innocent animals find homes. If others could help share it would help so much...xx :)"
Carol Knarr: "Running to NYC this weekend to adopt a dog that was posted online. I reposted his pic then fell in love with him myself! He hasn't been adopted yet, so off I go to add him to my pack."
Debbie Reek: "I'm with you sister! (Only how eloquently you do write, Susie.) My thoughts don't translate in the beautiful and succinct prose you author - I need to somehow bring your writing to the attention of the public and open their eyes to one of the few 'classic' writers of our time."
Tyler A. Chase: "I think you are plenty talented, sweetie."
Vicki Floren Blanche: "i haven't ignored you at all...just hadn't found enough words to say...in summary, thank you for the good job...thank you for fighting for God's creation..........i just wish animals could talk too"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
....isn't that the best? you should be really proud of those accomplishments on behalf of these precious ones we love so much. i am thrilled you and i are friends...
i love working with virtual animals as well as my own babies who i sometimes bark at when they are needing something. i get so busy typing away that i forget to remind them how much i love them and that because they are my "family" and such fun, that is why i help those we meet on facebook.
i feel sorry for folks who are missing out on working with animals. wishing we could recruit those very people to each adopt and empty the shelters. wow, i was just going to bed finally and saw your message and you have brightened my life with your kindness and your fabulous success. congrats on an important job well done! =^..^=
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love these comments!
Pamela Wainwright-Herrera: "Susie, you are a wonderful person with a heart of gold to help these innocent animals find homes. If others could help share it would help so much...xx :)"
Carol Knarr: "Running to NYC this weekend to adopt a dog that was posted online. I reposted his pic then fell in love with him myself! He hasn't been adopted yet, so off I go to add him to my pack."
Debbie Reek: "I'm with you sister! (Only how eloquently you do write, Susie.) My thoughts don't translate in the beautiful and succinct prose you author - I need to somehow bring your writing to the attention of the public and open their eyes to one of the few 'classic' writers of our time."
Tyler A. Chase: "I think you are plenty talented, sweetie."
Vicki Floren Blanche: "i haven't ignored you at all...just hadn't found enough words to say...in summary, thank you for the good job...thank you for fighting for God's creation..........i just wish animals could talk too"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
August 27, 2012
i wondered if i was alone in my thinking...
maybe i can stop crying on this monday in which so many orphans are on death row...how i deal with the sadness is i SHARE their photographs because i do not look away. they are facts of life and their lives matter. gotta wash my hair now...hoping more and more folks share these "kids" and i do mean "kids" on facebook.
they truly do deserve to live out their lives. i am so serious. minds engaged in this worthwhile activity and not in shallow self-involvement are the best around.
i am totally loving and respecting those who care enough to try to save these precious, innocent lives second by second. three cheers to you all! gonna wash all thoughts of those less inclined to help right outta my hair and return to do what matters...sharing humane thoughts and eager innocent faces with humanity in real time.
(i totally agree with my friend madeleine fisher-kern who wrote, "Oh, Susie, I'm just aching to get at them...especially the ugly shallow ones"....but shhhhh...the shallow ones can get pretty ugly when we call them shallow...they can break right out of their apathy and get mean as hell...so shhhh...;D they are driving me bats! i read their posts every day...shhhhh! ;D barbie dolls and kens on display...
seriously...and then i wonder where they were when they could have helped mend a broken heart or save a life and get actively involved in healing this world? damn.)
i wondered if i was alone in my thinking...magnifies my heart-break...this society makes me cry every day. so totally self-involved too much of the time...and time is of the essence.
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let us recruit more brave-hearted warriors who speak up and take action on behalf of all sentient beings...invite your GOOD friends...very needed in this world of ours. invite them to SQUAWK BACK! ♥!! Click here.
if ever there was a cause to bravely and kindly fight for it is this one for we all win! we need to double our number of squawk backers...
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From Beverley Holden: "Stephanie Stringer and her fellow facebook group members are taking on facebook for allowing animal abuse and more to be on display, apparently without any form of supervision or filtering system. WILD TIME talked to Steph Stringer. Click here to listen. WILD TIME talked to Stephanie about their upcoming campaign to force Facebook to clean up their pages and to police their content appropriately." And you can join their new group here.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
they truly do deserve to live out their lives. i am so serious. minds engaged in this worthwhile activity and not in shallow self-involvement are the best around.
i am totally loving and respecting those who care enough to try to save these precious, innocent lives second by second. three cheers to you all! gonna wash all thoughts of those less inclined to help right outta my hair and return to do what matters...sharing humane thoughts and eager innocent faces with humanity in real time.
(i totally agree with my friend madeleine fisher-kern who wrote, "Oh, Susie, I'm just aching to get at them...especially the ugly shallow ones"....but shhhhh...the shallow ones can get pretty ugly when we call them shallow...they can break right out of their apathy and get mean as hell...so shhhh...;D they are driving me bats! i read their posts every day...shhhhh! ;D barbie dolls and kens on display...
seriously...and then i wonder where they were when they could have helped mend a broken heart or save a life and get actively involved in healing this world? damn.)
i wondered if i was alone in my thinking...magnifies my heart-break...this society makes me cry every day. so totally self-involved too much of the time...and time is of the essence.
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let us recruit more brave-hearted warriors who speak up and take action on behalf of all sentient beings...invite your GOOD friends...very needed in this world of ours. invite them to SQUAWK BACK! ♥!! Click here.
if ever there was a cause to bravely and kindly fight for it is this one for we all win! we need to double our number of squawk backers...
_______________________
From Beverley Holden: "Stephanie Stringer and her fellow facebook group members are taking on facebook for allowing animal abuse and more to be on display, apparently without any form of supervision or filtering system. WILD TIME talked to Steph Stringer. Click here to listen. WILD TIME talked to Stephanie about their upcoming campaign to force Facebook to clean up their pages and to police their content appropriately." And you can join their new group here.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
August 23, 2012
Episode eleven of Sheepshead Bay Boulevard on The Colin Lively Show
Thousands of radio listeners can't be wrong! Don't miss out! The new camp classic Sheepshead Bay nears its epic conclusion...
Catch me and fellow author Danny Kemp (author of The Desolate Garden), entertainer and radio personality Judy Stadt, free-spirited Joshua Plant, and our incomparable host Colin on the Colin Lively Show! Listen at this link.
Danny writes: "I'm off to bed, but before I go I want to mention tomorrow's episode of SHEEPSHEAD BAY BOULEVARD, the penultimate one. There MAY be an enormous surprise, one very close to home. Goodnight everyone, stay well and safe and prepare yourselves..."
Colin adds, "yes...big, big surprises on Friday's Sheepshead Bay Boulevard series on my radio show!"
Susie ("Nora") adds, "that's myrtle beach for you! sex is a blur there...i know i sat on the beach and watched for about 10 years one afternoon. who are the bikinis really for...girls appealing to other girls (my vote) or somebody's ogling husband who wants more wives than any mormom ever had...or an arab sheik could shake his fist at? and mark my words, we have more listeners than own up to it...we get stalked by folks who if they cannot say anything nice...(why can't they? ;D ) say nothing at all...until the gossip commences. that's show biz! wheeeeeeee. 'there is a sucker born every minute!' ~p.t. barnum! hello, 26,000 fans!"
On This week's Colin Lively Show, we present Week 11 of Sheepshead Bay Boulevard!
Is Ashley Madison a double agent for the Evil Betty Ruay? And what has Nora done... there are sirens going off everywhere!
Also, Colin will be speaking with Sarah Wolff and Raissa Katona Bennett about all the goings on in the NYC theatre / cabaret scenes.
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
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For our animal friends...
...i cannot believe that we cannot stop these massacres...what would work? how can we help people to understand? what is the magic formula? some of these animals are lined up for their photographs like the romanov family in czarist russia...little do they know? or DO they...
instinctive animals know more than we do.
how can we continue this barbaric practice? these pictures on facebook are literally these pups' last chance to continue to live. oh, my heart...just babies...relate somehow. frightened babies in jail...to be gassed or heartstuck if nobody stops to care...or simply STOPS...how can any human being kill them for this week's paycheck...and accept profits from rendering the cadavers into pet food or fertilizer? just say NO, I CANNOT KILL.
...i see this stuff whenever i eat which is a good thing...the videos replay in my mind. i see this suffering...this massive profit-making suffering...this "final solution" on how to turn death into cash. and i wonder why it took so long to wise up...to discover compassion and to speak on behalf of animals -- the victims...the innocent, voiceless, silent, trusting victims. and wondering also when humanity will be so unfeeling and crass and hateful that once again humans will be loaded into cattle cars...these poor pitiful souls. and those who do this have no souls. and souls are where it is all at. but bodies can bleed. and ache. and sting. and writhe. and suffer. we are like them...mammals. exactly like they are.
I love this quote by Bradley Miller: "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar."
"SHARERS" ARE THE HOPE OF THIS WORLD...YOU FOLKS ARE FABULOUS!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING THESE DOLLS WHETHER PUPS OR KITTENS OR CATS OR DOGS OR HORSES OR SENIORS OR PREGNANT MAMAS TO BE OR PITTIES...SAVING LIVES IN REAL TIME...LIVE AND LET LIVE! HALLELUJAH AND THEN SOME!
postscript...
let us recruit more brave-hearted warriors who speak up and take action on behalf of all sentient beings...invite your GOOD friends...very needed in this world of ours. invite them to SQUAWK BACK! ♥!! Click here.
if ever there was a cause to bravely and kindly fight for it is this one for we all win! we need to double our number of squawk backers...
_______________________
Love this comment from new friend Debbie Reek: "I just visited Jennifer's 'Talk of the Town' on the web last night - through Susie's page. I was more impressed than I literally know how to express - not only for Jennifer, but for Susie's column and her beautiful writing skills. Thank you, Roy, for bringing this to our attention."
And this one from Diane Shenkman Baumgarten: "Susie, there is only so much you can do each day. Think instead of all the good you accomplish and all the lives you have saved."
And from Tressa Marie: "A sad, but great blog entry from Susie. It is so heartbreaking all the animals we see each day that we are trying to get rescued or find a forever home for ....then they end up being killed. All we can do is continue our fight for the voiceless and not give up. Not give up hope that one day things will change for our animal friends..."
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From Beverley Holden: "Stephanie Stringer and her fellow facebook group members are taking on facebook for allowing porn, animal abuse and more to be on display, apparently without any form of supervision or filtering system. WILD TIME talked to Steph Stringer. Click here to listen. WILD TIME talked to Stephanie about their upcoming campaign to force Facebook to clean up their pages and to police their content appropriately." And you can join their new group here.
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
Catch me and fellow author Danny Kemp (author of The Desolate Garden), entertainer and radio personality Judy Stadt, free-spirited Joshua Plant, and our incomparable host Colin on the Colin Lively Show! Listen at this link.
Danny writes: "I'm off to bed, but before I go I want to mention tomorrow's episode of SHEEPSHEAD BAY BOULEVARD, the penultimate one. There MAY be an enormous surprise, one very close to home. Goodnight everyone, stay well and safe and prepare yourselves..."
Colin adds, "yes...big, big surprises on Friday's Sheepshead Bay Boulevard series on my radio show!"
Susie ("Nora") adds, "that's myrtle beach for you! sex is a blur there...i know i sat on the beach and watched for about 10 years one afternoon. who are the bikinis really for...girls appealing to other girls (my vote) or somebody's ogling husband who wants more wives than any mormom ever had...or an arab sheik could shake his fist at? and mark my words, we have more listeners than own up to it...we get stalked by folks who if they cannot say anything nice...(why can't they? ;D ) say nothing at all...until the gossip commences. that's show biz! wheeeeeeee. 'there is a sucker born every minute!' ~p.t. barnum! hello, 26,000 fans!"
On This week's Colin Lively Show, we present Week 11 of Sheepshead Bay Boulevard!
Is Ashley Madison a double agent for the Evil Betty Ruay? And what has Nora done... there are sirens going off everywhere!
Also, Colin will be speaking with Sarah Wolff and Raissa Katona Bennett about all the goings on in the NYC theatre / cabaret scenes.
If you’ve missed any of the episodes, you MUST listen to the archives and get caught up.
_______________________
For our animal friends...
...i cannot believe that we cannot stop these massacres...what would work? how can we help people to understand? what is the magic formula? some of these animals are lined up for their photographs like the romanov family in czarist russia...little do they know? or DO they...
instinctive animals know more than we do.
how can we continue this barbaric practice? these pictures on facebook are literally these pups' last chance to continue to live. oh, my heart...just babies...relate somehow. frightened babies in jail...to be gassed or heartstuck if nobody stops to care...or simply STOPS...how can any human being kill them for this week's paycheck...and accept profits from rendering the cadavers into pet food or fertilizer? just say NO, I CANNOT KILL.
...i see this stuff whenever i eat which is a good thing...the videos replay in my mind. i see this suffering...this massive profit-making suffering...this "final solution" on how to turn death into cash. and i wonder why it took so long to wise up...to discover compassion and to speak on behalf of animals -- the victims...the innocent, voiceless, silent, trusting victims. and wondering also when humanity will be so unfeeling and crass and hateful that once again humans will be loaded into cattle cars...these poor pitiful souls. and those who do this have no souls. and souls are where it is all at. but bodies can bleed. and ache. and sting. and writhe. and suffer. we are like them...mammals. exactly like they are.
I love this quote by Bradley Miller: "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar."
"SHARERS" ARE THE HOPE OF THIS WORLD...YOU FOLKS ARE FABULOUS!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING THESE DOLLS WHETHER PUPS OR KITTENS OR CATS OR DOGS OR HORSES OR SENIORS OR PREGNANT MAMAS TO BE OR PITTIES...SAVING LIVES IN REAL TIME...LIVE AND LET LIVE! HALLELUJAH AND THEN SOME!
postscript...
let us recruit more brave-hearted warriors who speak up and take action on behalf of all sentient beings...invite your GOOD friends...very needed in this world of ours. invite them to SQUAWK BACK! ♥!! Click here.
if ever there was a cause to bravely and kindly fight for it is this one for we all win! we need to double our number of squawk backers...
_______________________
Love this comment from new friend Debbie Reek: "I just visited Jennifer's 'Talk of the Town' on the web last night - through Susie's page. I was more impressed than I literally know how to express - not only for Jennifer, but for Susie's column and her beautiful writing skills. Thank you, Roy, for bringing this to our attention."
And this one from Diane Shenkman Baumgarten: "Susie, there is only so much you can do each day. Think instead of all the good you accomplish and all the lives you have saved."
And from Tressa Marie: "A sad, but great blog entry from Susie. It is so heartbreaking all the animals we see each day that we are trying to get rescued or find a forever home for ....then they end up being killed. All we can do is continue our fight for the voiceless and not give up. Not give up hope that one day things will change for our animal friends..."
_______________________
From Beverley Holden: "Stephanie Stringer and her fellow facebook group members are taking on facebook for allowing porn, animal abuse and more to be on display, apparently without any form of supervision or filtering system. WILD TIME talked to Steph Stringer. Click here to listen. WILD TIME talked to Stephanie about their upcoming campaign to force Facebook to clean up their pages and to police their content appropriately." And you can join their new group here.
_______________________
Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter - print and ebook versions available. Also available in both formats at Amazon.com
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't
