Susan MacIver's Blog, page 3

HEALTH! IT DOES A BODY GOOD!

Over the last few weeks, my 82 year-old mother…who is a dynamo…suffered a stroke. My sister and I took turns staying with her in the hospital. They had to give her a horse tranq to settle her down, and once she was able to sleep, I told Cindy, “You just watch, she’ll sleep for two days then wake up and walk out of here.”

Which is almost exactly what happened, I’ve never seen powers of recuperation such as hers! We should all be so lucky!

THEN!!!

Duke, my husband, had an ablation (his 3rd) to...

“Write Drunk, Edit Sober!”…Why Didn’t I Think of That?

Considering his life and times, it isn’t any wonder that quote is often attributed to Hemingway? Actually, author Peter De Vries penned the saying, “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk.” Oh, the possibilities!

Many of our famous authors, painters, poets and actors have been so intimidated by that voluble Left Brain Critic that the inebriated/drugged state was the only way they felt they could create. Now, I’m not espousing prohibition, nor a...