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Susan D. Anderson

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in Boston, The United States

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https://www.livingasequals.com

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Nonfiction, Memoir, Spirituality

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February 2013

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I live in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, a place that makes it easy to integrate daily life with the sacred. The Connecticut River wends its way through the valley and right outside my windows. Surrounding hills are full of hiking wonders. Local farms are primarily organic and fill their roadside stands with healthy produce. My soul is thriving here.

Most of the time I feel a close proximity to the divine. It’s a good place to be when writing memoirs that describe my journey from childhood, through middle age and beyond. They are my personal history and they reflect our shared story as human beings.

The first memoir, Time After Time (Author House, 2012), is the story of living through an abusive childhood. It is especially pert I live in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, a place that makes it easy to integrate daily life with the sacred. The Connecticut River wends its way through the valley and right outside my windows. Surrounding hills are full of hiking wonders. Local farms are primarily organic and fill their roadside stands with healthy produce. My soul is thriving here.

Most of the time I feel a close proximity to the divine. It’s a good place to be when writing memoirs that describe my journey from childhood, through middle age and beyond. They are my personal history and they reflect our shared story as human beings.

The first memoir, Time After Time (Author House, 2012), is the story of living through an abusive childhood. It is especially pertinent reading for students of family dynamics and psychological and emotional abuse, particularly social workers and therapists who need case studies of this elusive form of abuse.

The second memoir, Flying Point (Amazon, 2016), is the story of living alone for two years on an isolated island in Maine. It is for everyone who is navigating a significant mid-life disturbance, especially those who yearn for a prolonged solitude to sort themselves out.

The third memoir, “Hello, grace.” (Amazon, 2022), weaves the threads and themes of my journey into a picture of what has been a life navigated as much by grace as by my own actions and decisions. I wrote this book especially for today’s younger people who are seeking a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives, people who feel drawn to the spiritual side of life and want to know how to connect to their deeper selves.

Each person has a unique theme in life. Artists call it a motif. It’s a concept that rivets our interest and permeates how we create and what we create at work and at home. Each of us also has a unique soul. It’s an inexhaustible inner world where we seek to connect our daily life to the immensity of creation.

Equality has been my motif from the beginning. My blog is called Living As Equals because that’s what I notice all around me and in the news. There you will find well over 100 essays on the small and large instances of unwarranted prejudice in our society, especially the ways we White people attack the humanity of people from other cultures, lifestyles, backgrounds, religions, dress, and languages. Even hairstyles, given names, and gender choices have been subject to blatant oppression.

The essays on Living As Equals name those prejudices and biases, talk about ways we can become more aware of our own discrimination, and offer ideas for becoming less White-centric and more anti-racist.

Long ago (1993), when Charlie Rose asked Toni Morrison about what racism did to her, she whipped her head around to Charlie and asked, “What is it doing to you, Charlie?” She described growing up feeling superior to White people because our incessant prejudice revealed that we are suffering from some kind of collective sickness. Race hatred acts like a neurosis in each and every one of us. It originates in our institutionalized racism and, like any illness, can progress to malignancy, which we have seen repeatedly and blatantly in the political-social sphere since 2017.

I write to offer an antidote to the insanity of our culture in these times: the ignorance, the inability to see one another's humanity, the depravity of gun violence, the immorality of elected officials, the failure to respect other people and their lives and their choices, however different they are from our own.
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	Flying Point: One Writer's Journey Into Solitude 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Time After Time: A memoir it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Again, Thanks!

Thank you to all who entered the giveaway for Flying Point, my memoir about 2 years alone on an isolated island. I am thrilled to see more people wanting it and reading it. Spread the word! And please read the other two memoirs! They all go together and tell the story of finding a wonderful life after all.

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