Susan Block's Blog

by Dr. Susan Block. Valentine’s Day is on its way, the shopping sites flashing rosy red hearts, but I’ve got the Valentine blues… how about you? It’s my first V-Day in over three decades without my beloved Captain Max (RIP Max 11/8/1943 – 5/13/2025), aka Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri, aka Mickey, my […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Happy New Year, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners… though frankly, I’m not too happy about it. Old 2024 may have been an Annus Horribilis, but 2025 marked The End. Finis for me. That is, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, my beloved husband of 33 years, publisher, producer, muse, witness, sweetheart, […]

  by Dr. Susan Block. You could say I have a collage fetish. Like a sexual or sacred fetish object that both soothes and stimulates the fetishist, I find that making collages both soothes my grief for Max and stimulates my memories of our wild and beautiful life together. Making collages is also my way of […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Travels with Max were always a great adventure, especially in France. From the chic museums of Paris to the hot yachts of St. Tropez, from the Hollywood parties of Cannes and fine cafés of Toulon to the libertine clubs of Toulouse, my darling Max loved France. Though he was born in […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Forty years of Captain Max live on The Dr. Susan Block Show takes center stage on Max Collage 2: “On DrSuzy-Tv,” the second in “My Beloved Max: Collage Collection.” The word “collage” comes from the French coller, meaning “to glue,” and my digital collages of photos from the extraordinary life of […]

by Dr. Susan Block. The word “collage” comes from the French coller, meaning “to glue,” and the “My Beloved Max” series of digital collages of photos from the extraordinary life of Prince Maximillian Rudolf Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri (11/8/2025 – 5/13/2025) – my darling husband of 33 years – are “glued” together with love and […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Collages are collisions of images and emotions. This “Family/History” collage is made up of images of my beloved Max, featuring his early life in Rome, Naples and Genoa, Italy; the great ship Italia that took Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri (11/8/1943 – 5/13/2025), aka “Mickey,” aka “Captain Max,” and […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Collages are collisions – of images and emotions. This “Max Family History” collage is made up of images of my beloved Max, featuring his early life in Rome, Naples and Genoa, Italy; the great ship Italia that took Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri (11/8/1943 – 5/13/2025), aka “Mickey,” aka […]

by Dr. Susan Block. Recently, my deep “Grieving Process” took my breath away – literally – as every respiratory branch on my tracheobronchial tree closed up shop, all airways *on strike* against the new working conditions of Life After Max. It’s been months since my beloved husband of 33 years and best-friend of 40, Pr. Maximillian R. […]

  “The Goal is the Journey,” was my beloved, dearly departed Capt’n Max’s motto, and a very special juncture in our journey through life, love, death and more love is about to occur: Max to the MAXIMUS! On what would be Max’s 82nd birthday – Saturday, November 8th, 2025 – the citizens of Bonoboville and […]