Spoken word artist Susa Silvermarie is a widely published and anthologized writer known for original work that delights the senses while calling the spirit. Silvermarie is grateful to spend her third trimester of life lakeside here in Mexico, sharing her work at www.susasilvermarie.com. Her collections Poems for Flourishing and Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit are available on Amazon. A new collection, Who

(excerpt) I’d like to take you back to yesteryear, when I was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona. I had come late to a career in education and at the age of 33 had already published four books and worked as a magazine editor. I was complaining about the terrible compositions my

‘…the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.’ William James When I imagine the intelligent, educated, alert faces of my readers, I am nevertheless made uneasy by the suspicion that there may be one or perhaps even two of you who are still holding the belief that the peasant from Stratford-upon-Avon

Some personal musings … Where has time gone? I woke up this morning realizing I have just completed another trip around the sun … 72 to be exact. Happy birthday to me! I am grateful for so many things. I have a wonderful and supportive husband who always keeps  life interesting for me, and a

When the American School of Guadalajara was founded in 1908 by Dalia Walsh its purpose was to serve the American communities, especially children of US diplomats and business leaders living in the city so that they would not fall behind their peers in the US when they returned home. It was a small school with