by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | Jan 24, 2022 | Creative Non Fiction, Musings, Uncategorized
Suddenly, this dream you are having matches everyone’s dream. You are here with all the others, suspended and waiting to breathe again. Waiting for the next newscast with an advisory, a warning, a statistic, a lockdown. You are not alone and you are. Alone. You have...
by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | Jan 14, 2022 | Musings, Uncategorized
This piece I wrote when my friend, Phil Dwyer, launched his book, Conversations on Dying, got lost in the shuffle of refurbishing my site. Since my last post concerned my relationship to death and dying, I thought it would be appropriate to repost this one. His book...
by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | Jan 6, 2022 | Musings
Doors are closing again. For our own good. To slow down the loss. One of the few television shows I watch is CBS Sunday morning. Last week marked the final episode of 2021. Half the hour was taken up with tributes to those who’d lifted off in the past twelve months....
by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | Dec 15, 2021 | Creative Non Fiction, Musings, Uncategorized
Writing my first novel in 2009 seemed easy and fun. Every other Monday evening for a year I got together with my fellow “Novel Approach” writers and effortlessly produced scene after scene. In my naivety and arrogance, I envisioned it made into a movie. With no small...
by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | May 20, 2021 | Creative Non Fiction, Musings
Recently, I received a friend request from a man I haven’t seen since 1978. Funny thing, time, how it compresses as easily as a Rolodex. It is 1976 and I am arrogant, full of wonder and worry as I stand on M’s terrace overlooking the hills of Rome. I am twenty-one...
by Deepam (Susan) Wadds | May 1, 2021 | Musings, Uncategorized
Trish in Mexico, 2015 When she sold the house with its mahogany floors and a view of a blue-green sea, my friend, Trish, no longer had financial concerns. She, who’d for decades used what funds she’d had to support caretakers of the earth, artists, visionaries,...
