Suzy Jacobson Cherry
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Writer. Artist. Educator. Interspiritual Priestess. I write poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and thoughts on stuff I love.
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How Hawking Helped Me Emerge Empowered
The Shy Girl People might not believe it now, but I was once a very shy person. I was terrified of public speaking. I don’t know if it was because I was always the new girl and never felt fully at home in my classes, or what. I distinctly remember the time in my Junior year of high school English class when I had to give a talk about the poet Vachel Lindsay. I was shaking all over, my teeth chattered, and my knees literally knocked together.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Confessions
“Hippie” by Barry Miles
Hippie by Barry Miles (2005) is interesting and filled with information about the multitude of movements that happened in America and Britain from 1965 to 1971. It was a tumultuous, terrible, deadly, inspired, mystical, and hopeful time. During it all, I was in my formative years, watching the war and the riots on television. I am of the first generation to grow up with television for my whole life, yet I had no idea what kind of Happenings were going on. This book was informative. However, I found it wanting in some ways.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Viva
My Experiences with Fantasy in Story and Art
I Was Born to Read I think it was inevitable that I would fall into the worlds of fantasy. My mother’s idea of bedtime stories included the works of Poe and Coleridge. She was constantly reading to me herself, and enrolled me in the Dr. Seuss Book Club when I was very little. I started getting books from Scholastic as soon as it was introduced to me in elementary school. I looked forward to those little flyers and the annual Scholastic Book Fair.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Geeks
Thrifting and the Middle Class
My earliest memories of thrift shopping are of dark stores with racks jam-packed with dresses, suits, and jackets. Big boxes filled to the brim with children’s clothing, underwear, fashion accessories, and stuffed animals congregated in the middle of the stores. We tore through them, looking for something that fit us and that we liked. Shelves with old toys and books lined the walls, usually in the back.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Families
Murder Most Memorable — Television
Mysteries have not been trapped between the bindings of books since the invention of film. In the 1960s when I was still a kid, we watched a few of the crime shows that were on television. The ones I remember are 77 Sunset Strip, Route 66, Adam-12, Dragnet, and The Mod Squad.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Longevity
Murder Most Memorable — Books
I became an avid reader at a tender young age. It was inevitable with a mother who read bedtime stories to me from the classics and spent most of her free time with her nose in a book. When I was younger, Mom’s favorite escapist genre was mystery, particularly those of Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dorothy Sayers, John Creasy, and of course, that Queen of murder mystery, Agatha Christie.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Longevity
I Was a 1990s Telephone Psychic
It was 1997 and I had recently become single again. My youngest child was an infant and I was on leave from work. I had some savings and I owned my tiny trailer, which I had purchased for $800. Still, I needed extra income, and I wanted to do something I could do from home.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Confessions
Memories of the May
Making May Baskets When I was a little girl in Minnesota, we made May Baskets in school. I remember cutting construction paper into strips and weaving them together. We would then fold up the woven sheets and secure them into little boxes with staples or glue, finally stapling on a handle made from a strip of construction paper. We made flowers with tissue and pipe cleaners to fill our little baskets. We would take them home with us to wait until May 1, when we would trudge over to the neighbor's house, hang the baskets on the door, knock, and run. It was great fun.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Families
Good Books for a Contemplative Life
In a previous article, Reading About Spirituality: Inspiration for learning and growth, I defined spirituality as “our sense that we are part of something greater than ourselves and our search for meaning and a sense of the sacred in our lives” and Interspirituality as “finding and connecting to spirituality across traditions.”
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Longevity
Reading About Spirituality
Spirituality is our sense that we are part of something greater than ourselves, our search for meaning, and a sense of the sacred in our lives. Many people find answers to their questions about truth and meaning in a specific religious tradition, while others find it in other ways. Interspirituality is finding and connecting to spirituality across traditions.
By Suzy Jacobson Cherry3 years ago in Longevity
