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Continue reading →: The Misadventures of a Lost Stanley Drink CupThis lap around the lazy-river pool, the magnifying lens is turned on me. Yes, ME, myself and I and how we three jumped to conclusions. The wrong conclusions, of course. So wrong I’m shaking my head as I write this. It all started with the Stanley IceFlow drink tumbler my…
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Continue reading →: Enjoy Classic Films Together: 3 for the WeekendA UCLA study found that couples who watch movies together and discuss them are 50 percent less likely to divorce. Though this is hardly the thing that keeps my husband Chris and I together, we do enjoy watching classic movies most every evening. I told this to a friend recently, and…
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Continue reading →: Exploring David Brooks’ ‘How to Know a Person’Post-election 2024 I treated myself to a subscription to both the New York Times and The Atlantic, where I’ve enjoyed David Brooks’ writing on politics and culture. Particularly, I was absorbed by “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.” (Sign up for a free 30-day…
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Continue reading →: Hypocrisy in the Workplace: A Personal AccountWhile I’m on the subject, here’s another story about my former boss, Pam. In case you didn’t already read BN@TB#3, The Pitfalls of Petty Bosses, Pam was my on-and-off again boss during the 11 years I worked in the corporate communications department of a Fortune 500 electric utility. Pam was…
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Continue reading →: Cruise Away from Crazy Clown Politics: The Ultimate Escape PlanI have had nearly two weeks now to process my election grief, and a part of me still sobs. That’s the part that woke at 5 a.m. Nov. 6 (because my old-lady bladder always wakes me then) and just had to check election results. Then, realizing all was lost, I…
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Continue reading →: Navigating Political Conversations with a Talkaholic: Barbie Tales“Hi! My name is Mary, and I’m a politicaholic and a talkaholic.” Okay, so I just invented two words. Beat me. But seriously, wouldn’t it be great if there were 12-step programs for either or both of these issues? Because the two together make a poisonous combination, particularly for those…
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Continue reading →: Rethinking Language: A Crashup of Modern WordsThe author expresses frustration with modern language usage, particularly the terms “weaponization,” “woke,” “word salad,” and gender-neutral pronouns, arguing they dilute clarity in communication. As a writing professional, the author values precise language and believes excessive use of jargon and ambiguous terms obstruct understanding, diminishing effective expression in discourse.
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Continue reading →: The Pitfalls of Petty BossesMeet Pam, my boss on and off during the 11 years I worked in the corporate communications department of a Fortune 500 electric utility. Unlike a lot of bosses I’ve known, Pam worked hard. She never asked her employees to do anything she was unwilling to do herself, she got…
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Continue reading →: Dangers of Spreading Weather Conspiracy TheoriesLook! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…CHEMTRAILS! Huh? What happened to “It’s Superman”? You know, “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to reach tall buildings in a single bound!” What happened? One day as my friend Cheryl and I walked…
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Continue reading →: Say Goodbye to Daylight Savings Time, PLEASE!When I woke this past Sunday morning the clock read 9:30 a.m., but I knew it was really 8:30 a.m., since overnight the world returned to the sanity of standard time. We fell back in the fall, as the saying goes. And it only got better as the day wore…
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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