From sunrise to sunset of 2025, what a year this has been. I want to share some photos from this past year. Morocco, the Sahara Desert, a family visit, a surgery gone wrong, and my writing adventures. With health issues mostly behind me, I’m ready for more adventure. Wishing you and yours a wonderful New…Read more »
Category: writing
Happy Holidays 2025
Whatever holiday or special time you celebrate this season, allow me to send you good cheer from my Fulani Woman dressed for the holidays. Click on my POST about this extraordinary woman. Following that poem is one about Liberian Woman, just as remarkable. I will join you again in the New Year.
Family: Formed, Found, and Chosen; Moroccan Nomads
My poem, Curiosity and Wonder was selected for publication in early 2026 in an anthology of short stories and poems by several local authors. The submission was based on the theme Family: Formed, Found, and Chosen, in response to the memoir Solito by Javier Zamora, which tells the story of a nine-year-old child making his…Read more »
Inspiring Children: Dima’s True Story in Botswana
Posted by in Children's Book, writing After a blip in my health this year, I got back on track with the help of my critique group to finish the manuscript for my children’s picture book. It is under review by my developmental editor, and Chelsa, will start her illustrations in January 2026. I have chosen IngramSpark, a publisher that distributes and…Read more »
From Illness to Inspiration: Crafting My Second Memoir
Several weeks ago, I developed community-acquired pneumonia, AKA walking pneumonia. I lay weeks on the couch, listless, weak, with no appetite. My family doctor tried diligently to avert it. When it developed into a bacterium, the antibiotics finally worked. But until I fully recovered, I couldn’t shut my mind off. Over the days and weeks,…Read more »
The Power of Truth in Memoir Writing
Some parts of my memoir, Pink Flamingos, were painful to write when it came to telling the whole story, the whole sensitive truth. I was concerned who would read it and what they would think; my family, my classmates, my work colleagues. All my coaches encouraged me to write what happened, not focus on the…Read more »
Challenge Yourself: Write a Children’s Book
Posted by in writing So what is so challenging about writing a children’s picture story book? I could write under 600 words in about 30 minutes and get it done. Not the illustrations, of course; I found a wonderful illustrator to do that. Hey, I am already a published author of adult nonfiction stories and poems. “Piece of cake,”…Read more »
Susan E. Greisen 