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What is an Email Sabbatical?

July 29, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

Several of you have written me asking for the process it took to get my eBook up on Amazon. I'm happy to share. I also want to include some of the wonderful reviews that have come in, because they have blown my mind! I never expected such terrific and fun-loving reviews. Here are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Life, Seasons in a Portland Garden, The Writing Life Tagged With: echinacea, email sabbatical, The Beet Goes On, vacations

Good For Your Heart…down to your toes.

June 22, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

From the tip of your summer toes to your heart, my eBook makes good summer reading…AND it’s almost here. I’m so pleased to announce that that The Beet Goes On: Essays on Friendship & Breaking New Ground is almost ready for my subscribers FREE on the blog. In about two weeks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Life, People, The Writing Life Tagged With: aging, floaters, free eBook, summer solstice, The Beet Goes On

The POLST form: the post I didn’t want to write

May 8, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

Boy, I have been putting this off. I didn’t want to write about it. I started and stopped, trying to find the right approach. But now, I can’t worry if I have it down perfectly. I believe that the readers who follow this blog will understand and appreciate that this is what I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Change, Grief and Loss, Life, People Tagged With: Carmela Troccolo, dying, end of life issues, hospice, POLST

Bhutan, an unforgettable place

April 21, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

  Note to my readers: The site Lighthearted Travel is closing its doors. For that reason, I'm taking one of my essays from that site and putting it here. I hope you enjoy it. This was a travel article I wrote soon after coming home from Bhutan.  Remember that most photos can be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, People, Travel Tagged With: Bhutan, Buddhism, Divine Mad Monk, Gho, Gross National Happiness, Happiness, mandala, monastery, Punakha Dzong, Taktsang, Travel

Rome: Homage to a Teacher

March 31, 2015 By Susan Troccolo

Excerpt from Homage: honoring a teacher I don’t know why I was drawn to her that day in Rome, over thirty years ago. She was eighty-three years old. I was thirty-two. We were from different worlds, with nothing apparent in common, but I wanted something deeper from my experience … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Life, People Tagged With: Anna Lea Lelli, Catherine Drea, homage, Pantheon, Roma, Rome, Susan Troccolo

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