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By Susan Barrett Price Posted on September 22, 2020

Buddies

I’ve never been a poet. All effort at poetry in school simply got eye rolls from my teachers. But apparently the sport of scubadiving inspired me one evening along about … Continue reading Buddies

Categories: writingTags: poetry, scubadiving
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on September 8, 2020

The Writing Streak

I’m not very good at sustaining a streak. Exercise, dieting, spiritual practices… here today, gone tomorrow. But the covid winter turned into the summer of writing magically. Every Friday* since … Continue reading The Writing Streak

Categories: family saga, writingTags: Flanagan
Kitty Flanagan's souvenir photo from the St. Louis World's Fair
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on June 10, 2020

The Writing Life, Cont’d

2020 has been full of devastating sadness. My dear mother died. Then we retreated into our hermitage as I protected my old lion of a husband from the plague sweeping … Continue reading The Writing Life, Cont’d

Categories: Work in ProgressTags: Kitty Flanagan
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on May 20, 2020

Kitty Flanagan and the writing life

I am four chapters into writing the historical novel about my ancestral Flanagan family, trying to get them out of their worker’s paradise in Leclaire, Illinois, and back to coal-blackened … Continue reading Kitty Flanagan and the writing life

Categories: Work in ProgressTags: Flanagan, Kitty Flanagan
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on May 6, 2020May 20, 2020

Kitty Flanagan: the saga begins

I never get tired of poking into the history of my grandmother’s family, the Flanagans. It is a sprawling saga of heartbreak and scandal, redeemed by the strength and resilience … Continue reading Kitty Flanagan: the saga begins

Categories: family saga, Work in Progress, writingTags: family saga, Flanagan, Kitty Flanagan
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on December 20, 2019

The Bride Doll

I was not that child who took care of her toys. Dolls were companions in make-believe, not decor. We played house. We played school. I pulled off their clothes and … Continue reading The Bride Doll

Categories: collectibles, memoryTags: doll
Public domain photo. Groninger Library, at Fort Eustis, Va., Oct. 31, 2012
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 2, 2019

The Library

I’m on Chapter 2 of The Library Book by Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer of one of my very favorite books The Orchid Thief. She is describing the cataclysmic … Continue reading The Library

Categories: art life, memory
1953. Climbing team after Hermann Buhl summits Nanga Parbat
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on May 24, 2019

Courage to live on the edge

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that, for the past month, every time I hear a wave crash against our eroding shore, I flinch. I’m hypervigilante and my brain … Continue reading Courage to live on the edge

Categories: Headlong, lake lifeTags: Hermann Buhl, Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
Passion and Peril on the Silk Road
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on February 16, 2019

PASSION & PERIL: on sale

If you understand the passion of collecting, if you are fascinated by the perils of the trade at its most extreme, you’ll love this novel. In 2008, with PASSION AND … Continue reading PASSION & PERIL: on sale

Categories: Passion & PerilTags: China, Kindle, novel, Pakistan, sale
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on January 18, 2019

THE SUDDEN SILENCE on sale!

Week of Jan 18, 2019: get your $0.99 Kindle edition of my thriller THE SUDDEN SILENCE: A TALE OF SUSPENSE AND FOUND TREASURE, published in 2015 by Mad in Pursuit. … Continue reading THE SUDDEN SILENCE on sale!

Categories: The Sudden Silence, writingTags: Kindle, sale
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on January 10, 2019

When Your Groove is Gone

I was going to tell you about this online curriculum I signed up for, but I wound up pulling out my diagram of the S-curves of Life.* This is the … Continue reading When Your Groove is Gone

Categories: philosophy, Tribe of the Breakaway BeadsTags: learning, s-curve
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on January 5, 2019

“Headlong” $.99 This Week

If you’re in the mood for a short, punchy memoir about normally sensible middle-aged people taking insane risks on a Central Asian roadtrip, HEADLONG is on sale for $.99 this … Continue reading “Headlong” $.99 This Week

Categories: Headlong, writingTags: China, memoir, Pakistan, roadtrip, travel tale

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