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Continue reading →: Dream Symbolism to Navigate Life: Tricksters, Galaxies, Quipus & ScootersLast week I dreamed I was working in the manor house of an old estate with several outbuildings on many acres. My coworkers were the same crowd I worked with in the corporate communications department of a Fortune 500 electric utility, and our offices were situated on the second floor,…
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Continue reading →: Happy Valentine’s Day: 3 Bittersweet Romances Involving Reluctant RoyalsIn 1953, the same year Roman Holiday debuted, a romance flourished between a real-life princess and a commoner. Britain’s Princess Margaret, 22, and Capt. Peter Townsend, 38, were madly love, and the newspapers were full of the story. Townsend had served in various palace positions from the time Margaret was…
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Continue reading →: Before You Sign Me Up for Assisted Living, Read ThisIf you read my last post without your tongue in your cheek, you might think, at the least, I am horribly depressed. Or, possibly, that I’m ready for assisted living. Turns out I’m neither. I’m very happy not caring so much about things that don’t really matter anyway–like folded sheets,…
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Continue reading →: I’m Officially Waaay Over the Hill & Descending FastThis past weekend, while putting away the laundry, I finally admitted to myself I was an old fart. I’ve said it in jest before–to my husband or a few friends or maybe even in a blog post–but I never really meant it until now. Why, you ask? What suddenly changed?…
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Continue reading →: Check Out These Must-Watch ‘Mister’ Films for a Fun EveningThe 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s all saw hit movies featuring the word “Mister” in their title. Perhaps most recognizable would be a couple of the Frank Capra greats, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” in 1939 and 1936, respectively. Though wonderful movies, they lean…
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Continue reading →: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Putting Together Jigsaw PuzzlesA week has passed since my National Puzzle Day post in which I recounted how my dad and I put together jigsaws side-by-side when I was growing up. The memory inspired me to buy a 1,000-piece puzzle in his honor. I quickly remembered how much I loved puzzling then and…
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Continue reading →: Unpacking 2024’s Words of the Year, for Better or WorseI admit I’m a sucker for that “word of the year” stuff publishers put out when transitioning from one year to the next. But the words they choose are getting less and less comprehensible to my 68-year-old processing center. And there are more and more of them. This year I…
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Continue reading →: Political Conspiracy Movie Classics Ripped From the HeadlinesPolitical conspiracies are always hot properties for Hollywood. But in the 1960s and early 70s they were on fire, what with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War with Russia, and the assassinations of Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. In fact, Fletcher Knebel, co-author of…
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Continue reading →: This National Puzzle Day, Unlock Your Brain Power & Your MemoriesIf you’re over 50, you probably get tons of ads on your phone for this and that puzzle to stave off dementia. My least favorite one is the AI-generated “neurologist” who doesn’t look old enough to have graduated college, let alone finished a neurology residency. (His over-tucked eyes look like…
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Continue reading →: Rejecting Pardon: Pam Hemphill’s Stand Against Rewrite of HistoryThe first (two so far) of more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants to refuse a presidential pardon and admit her guilt is a 71-year-old retired grandmother from Idaho, recovering from breast cancer. She is also a recovering addict with 45 years sober to her credit. All of which makes Pam…
Susan Clark Lawson
As journalist, business communicator, entrepreneur and teacher, Susan’s writing has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, literary journals and coffee table books. Her creativity has been the anonymous force behind scores of brochures, newsletters, logos, annual reports and flyers.
As a high school publications adviser, her yearbooks won top national awards from both the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
As a business communicator, she supervised employee publications for a Fortune 500 electric utility and eventually started her own successful writing and design business, WildCat Communications.
She earned accredited business communicator (ABC) status from the International Association of Business Communicators, for which she served as an international executive board member, tri-state district director and Indianapolis chapter president, among other roles. IABC International named Indianapolis Midsized Chapter of the Year for 1996, the year Susan was its president, and in 1998, the chapter reciprocated by naming Susan its Communicator of the Year.
In 2005 she trained with Amherst Writers & Artists and since then has led hundreds of supportive, generative creative-writing workshops, both in person and virtually, through libraries and in her home, employing AWA methods.
Now (mostly) retired, Susan lives with her husband of more than 35 years and their two sassy cats in a light-filled brick house on a quiet lake in Indiana, where all enjoy watching the wildlife. She’s an active volunteer with the local Purdue Extension Service and an Advanced Master Gardener.
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