Susan Stoderl
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Zelda Screech Cat | Chapter 14 Excerpt
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Susan Stoderl
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer, not once, but twice | Eugenia Lovett West
Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 24, 2022
- 1 min
Fanny Fern Tales | Getting Up the Wrong Way, Part 2
Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
Fanny Fern Tales | Getting Up the Wrong Way
This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 13, 2022
- 1 min
Geraldine Brooks | Historical Fiction
I read Year of Wonders in 2020, right when Covid was in full swing. The book concerns how one English countryside village dealt with the...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 10, 2022
- 0 min
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 5, 2022
- 1 min
Meet Sean O'Donohue (Mr. O’D)
Sean O'Donohue was Sophia’s grandmother, Elspeth MacGregor's soul mate and best friend. When Sophia came to live with Nana as an orphan...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 2, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer | Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...
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 18, 2022
- 0 min
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer|Sassy Senior: Mary Wesley
Late Bloomer | Sassy Senior | Mary Wesley (1912-2002)