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Continue reading →: Check out WWII ‘Down Under’ with Movies Set in Australia & New ZealandAll three of this week’s Classic Movie Buzz picks are World War II backstories with “down under” settings. One took place entirely in New Zealand, another in New Zealand and various Pacific islands, and the third mostly in Malaya but ending in Australia. Regardless of story setting, all three were…
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Continue reading →: The Reading Crisis: Insights from ‘Sold a Story’ PodcastsI recently finished listening to a podcast series called Sold a Story by Emily Hanford, senior producer and correspondent for American Public Media. Her six-part series with four updates, each about 30 minutes, explores how American schools have clung to an outmoded method of teaching reading, proven wrong by cognitive…
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Continue reading →: From Selfies to Stupidity: the Social Media EffectThe above photo shows people in an evacuation zone at the Eaton, CA, fire taking selfies and videos near burning homes last week. And they’re obviously having fun doing it and simultaneously posting to a social media site. I have a friend who lives about a half-hour away in Claremont.…
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Continue reading →: Take a Winter Vacation on the Cheap By Streaming 3 Movies Set in Sunny ItalyThis week’s classic movie picks celebrate the “Hollywood on the Tiber” era, though one stays exclusively on the Grand Canal in Venice, and a third spends most of its time on the Arno. All three include Italian-born Rossano Brazzi in leading or supporting roles. Brazzi is perhaps best remembered playing…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Maxime Noel: A Legacy of Friendship & Regard for WWII HistoryWith great sadness I learned a week ago of the death of my friend Max–Maxime Noel, a resident of Morville, Belgium–on 4 January 2025, at the age of 42. Our connection was such a serendipitous meeting of souls that I wanted to share it. Like all the best stories, this…
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Continue reading →: Singing the Yes-No Banana Blues with Storyworth Customer ServiceDo you ever get frustrated trying to get a straight answer out of a customer service representative? And if you’re using email or chat, it’s even tougher. Somewhere along the line, CSRs were taught to reframe a “no” in positive language. But sometimes a customer just wants to hear a…
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Continue reading →: How to Cast Movies from Phone to Big Screen + 3 Rom-Com ‘Heist’ ClassicsIn an earlier post I shared an app to help you organize your movie collection. This post focuses on how to cast movies from your smartphone to the big screen of your smart TV. There are several apps out there that will do this, but we use Web Video Caster,…
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Continue reading →: Lessons of Brokenness in Nature: a Goose’s TaleWhy am I always the one eating the crumbs at the bottom of the bag of chips? My husband snacks just until he finishes up the whole ones, then shoves the remaining bag of crumbs back into the pantry, forgotten, unless I eat them, which I usually do. If I’m…
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Continue reading →: Defamation: Warnings from Trump v. ABC News & Personal ExperienceI know how ABC News Anchor George Stephanopoulos must feel. I, too, was sued for defamation then abandoned by my employer. Neither he nor I got fired (in fact, his contract with ABC was subsequently renewed) because neither of us did anything wrong. We just got hung out to dry,…
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Continue reading →: Top ‘Gaslighting’ Classic Movies You Must WatchNot many plays or films can be credited with coining a new word, but the 1938 British play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton did just that. Film adaptations were made in Great Britain in 1940 and in the United States in 1944. The “verb” form of the play’s name didn’t…
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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