Susan Wheeler Smith

Coming Home.She runs from the pain; the grief; the too much.Fleeing, she feels, is freeing.Just me, she says; I can do it.She leaves it behind her, she thinks.Clinging to her very being, it stays.For a time she is free.The darkness is embraced.The emptiness is relief.She convinces herself.She is alone, not free.She is hiding, not living.The [...]

About three years ago, My Man and I were at the first session of a marriage class thingy at church. We had to go around and say one word to describe our spouse. We were at the tail end of this process so I had lots of time to come up with an awesome word [...]

This is post 387 that I've written over the last couple of days. This one just may make it to the Press Publish Stage.I don't write to be funny. I don't write funny stuff on purpose. But I do like to crack people up. When I was That Girl, I had a wicked, often cruel [...]

Woke up this morning around 3:00 am, you, know...my usual wake-up time, and thought to myself, "I have got to just get on with it. So, I am. *disclaimer: I actually fell back asleep after an hour or so and slept til 8:00.I stumbled down the stairs tripping all over the kitties, made myself a [...]

So much is going on this Fall. It's not that it's bad, it's just...different.I don't do change well at all. I suppose I never have. The kids are growing up.The olders are getting older and have gone on to the other side. My parents are now the oldest generation in our family which means *yikes* we [...]

While I'm jump-up-and-down-slap-me-silly happy about it, I am also in shock. Shock. I swear school just ended last week. Didn't we just start two-a-days two days ago? *and by we I mean the Wild Boy since he drives himself and all that now*Speaking of driving and the Wild Boy. Ever since he and His Father [...]

I've always been a big planner. I love making lists. I love paper and purple pens and using both to jot down thoughts, ideas, notes...plans.My journal is full of my plans.I always imagine I hear a whisper of a laugh when I write out all my lofty plans and ideas and lists.One of my Jesus [...]

September is just around the corner.September is my favorite time of the year. Especially since having children. Oh, I definitely cried the first day of kindergarten and the first day of first grade (Kindergarten is half days around here so it was like sending them off to preschool still.) Cried when they all started Middle [...]

turns out it is really random and I use really a lot in it So you might or might not have read my post office complaint on facebook earlier this week. I've been waiting for days for The Hunger Games DVD to arrive from Amazon. On Tuesday Amazon tracking showed it out for delivery! Par-tay. [...]

My sweet friend, Joanne Heim, had me pegged years ago and, if I had the time, I know I could find the email she sent to me that stated this, but I am an all or nothing kind of girl. And a people pleaser to boot. Definitely a wicked combination. It's why I struggle with [...]