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Continue reading →: Use App to Track Your Classic Movie Finds + 3 Obscure Rod Steiger GreatsClassic Movie Buzz #1 mentioned an app my husband uses to keep track of all the great classic movies he finds. This post will introduce you to that app. PLUS, I’ll tag three classic films starring Rod Steiger that you probably aren’t familiar with but won’t want to miss. CLZ…
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Continue reading →: Bridging Political Divides: Insights from ‘We Live Here Now’ PodcastsOn Nov. 6 of this year the thought uppermost in my mind was what I could do to put our country back together again after a close and contentious presidential election. More than half the country voted differently than I did and, like it or not, I wanted to understand…
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Continue reading →: Quiz Yourself: How ‘Factfulness’ Challenges Our Views of the WorldOkay, so factfulness is an invented word, and I’m usually not a fan of invented words. But this one was created for the title of a book–Factfulness: 10 Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things are Better Than You Think, to make it stand out. It’s not really…
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Continue reading →: Whose Side Are You On? Taking on the Twisted PoolLast summer, my friend Pat and I paced through the curves of our lazy-river community pool, chatting about how another pool pal, Babs (TPT#1), talks endlessly and listens little. In all fairness, Babs wears earplugs to keep the water out of her ears because she swims rather than walks, so…
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Continue reading →: Feeling Technologically Obsolete: Outsmarted by a Rental Car & My HusbandBack in October I rented a car to visit some friends in Ohio and do some research for my writing, and I came home feeling like I was on my way to becoming technologically obsolete. It wasn’t my friends who made me feel that way; it was the rental car.…
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Continue reading →: Navigating Toxic Leadership in Education: Confessions of a Former TeacherThis is a difficult, painful post to write. Even as I sit at my desk, fingertips resting lightly on keyboard, I wonder if I can get it down in a way that helps me do something positive with it. Because IF I’m going to resurrect the past, I want it…
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Continue reading →: Lawrence of Arabia: A Cinematic Masterpiece + 2 More for Weekend ViewingThis week’s movie picks are all British films. Give yourself an early start if you plan to watch the epic biopic Lawrence of Arabia all in one sitting. Serious Charge is similar in plot to last week’s The Children’s Hour, dealing with the impact of false rumors. Mandy is unique…
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Continue reading →: A Meaningful Encounter: Connecting Over Culture & History at Clinic Check-inThe encounter was a simple one. I had to get blood drawn for some annual tests. One test required fasting, and I hit the clinic not long after it opened so I could go home and have my coffee and breakfast. But other people had the same idea. The waiting…
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Continue reading →: A Reporter’s Dilemma: the Carbon Copy ControversyHere’s another story from my days as a newspaper reporter at the Piqua (OH) Daily Call, July 1978 through December 1979. The targeted boss in this tale of woe is the same “Larry” mentioned in BNTB #2, Behind the Scenes of a First Job: A Reporter’s Tale. The twist this…
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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