by Valerie Sussman | Oct 13, 2018 | Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!
We women are the stars of this show. Our feminine powers dazzle, Powers that come from—and with—light… Radiant luminescence. Onward, ladies! This way to endurance, stamina, and determination. We women have staying power. We are fiercely loyal. We may give...
by Valerie Sussman | Jul 20, 2017 | Narcissists: (Only Bad and Ugly Here), Random Acts of Baggage
Is the Medium the Message? In Greek mythology, Hermes was the all-important messenger of the Gods, able to travel freely between the over-world and the underworld. Did you know he was also considered the “Trickster?” The Trickster character appears in many cultures...
by Valerie Sussman | Jul 5, 2017 | Divorce: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Random Acts of Baggage
Sometimes the chasms in a relationship are too large too bridge, The gaps too great, The canyons too grand. (But enough about that…) Do these jeans make my butt look...
by Valerie Sussman | Jun 21, 2017 | Divorce: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sometimes a “soulmate” is, in fact, a “cellmate.” I spent twenty years in a marriage that, in retrospect, was a sentence. All stripes, no stars. The more I gave, the less I received. I was starving for crumbs of love, begging for a bone. Any crumbs, any bone. “Throw...
by Valerie Sussman | Jun 13, 2017 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!
I lived the first fifty years of my life in an environment of chronic testosterone overload… An alpha male physician father and three brothers, followed by an alpha male husband and three sons, as well as twenty-plus years of practicing medicine surrounded by alpha...
by Valerie Sussman | Jun 13, 2017 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown
“You should be over it by now,” my parents told me one year into a 2 ½ year-long divorce from my husband of twenty years. “You are wasting your time and money on therapy and books.” I was told that I was “neurotic”– I was dwelling too much on the pain,...
by Valerie Sussman | Jun 13, 2017 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Random Acts of Baggage
Life is Art. Life is Heart. (Welcome Back, Hermie!) I was a fun, funny, whacky, creative kid. Until “Hermie’s Hot Dog Stand,” that is. “Hermie’s Hot Dog Stand” was a short story I wrote in Miss Lawson’s 8th grade English class. In this adolescent opus of fun fiction,...