Susan Stoderl
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
Writer's Life | The Social Media Battle
In June, I began building a new website and updating social media sites from a composer/writer frame to an indie children’s book author...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
A Family by Choice — Not Blood
One of the major themes of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series is the creation of her own unique family as an orphan. This would...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 22, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Zelda Screech Cat
Meet Zelda Screech Cat
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 21, 2022
- 2 min
Late Bloomer | Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter grew up isolated from other children since upper-middle-class girls did not attend school. Governesses privately...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
Going Backwards
The aria speaks of life among the destitute in 19th-century New York City. That time is returning all over this country because women are...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 19, 2022
- 1 min
On Reading and Writing
Reading has always been my salvation from loneliness and moments of feeling bad within myself. Reading and writing transport me into a...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 18, 2022
- 0 min
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 15, 2022
- 1 min
Today Meet Wahoo the Raven, a very Dapper Dude
From Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a Day's Work He looked around his home with pride. “My, my, my, I have...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer|Sassy Senior: Mary Wesley
Late Bloomer | Sassy Senior | Mary Wesley (1912-2002)
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 13, 2022
- 3 min
The Widow Was Ready to Write!
Last week in my Fanny Fern | A.F.R.A.I.D. Series, I wrote about the “Cult of True Womanhood,” also known as the “Cult of Domesticity.”...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 12, 2022
- 2 min
Library Cards Save Lives
Books were the center of my life as a child. Until eleven years old, I was an only child and mostly cared for by my elderly grandparents....
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 11, 2022
- 0 min
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Introducing the Cru Crew
From Sophia and the Bright Red Sneakers, Mission 1: All in a Day's Work. Meet Ella Cru "As if to remind Sophia of her status, standing in...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
Fanny Fern and the Cult of True Womanhood
"The Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood," was established for the wives and daughters of the white American middle- and upper-class...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Meet Pedro Gonzalez
Pedro Gonzalez is Sophia’s best friend and co-conspirator in sleuthing and improving the world one mission at a time. He is ten years...