Susan Smith Thompson

This thing being this website/blog/whatever it is. I started it as a place to put all my writing in one spot instead of locked away in my hard drive or spread throughout the Internet. I envision it as a Jackson Pollock painting. He was the dude that threw or dripped paint at the canvas and [...]

My mom did yesterday. We hope.
She’s a proponent of preventative medicine and goes for all the health screenings. She read an article in the newspaper about a new heart disease screening process (something with the CAT scan, I didn’t get all the details) at a local hospital and signed up. I don’t know how new it [...]

Well, the universe is telling me I need an attitude adjustment, not in a bad way, but a few slight tweaks to help manage life smoother.
Apparently, I need to focus on parenting this summer, and not working. That’s not to say I shouldn’t work, mind you. My struggle has been how to get all my [...]

It’s been a struggle lately. Struggle to blog, to write, to get up for work, just to function even. I’m not sure what’s going on. I even spent most of yesterday on the couch watching TV, simply for lack of energy to do anything else. Unfortunately, I couldn’t enjoy it since all I could focus [...]

I’ve decided to create my own 30-day trial period with writing. My goal? To post a new page/entry in either of my two sites, both of which are starving for content. Maybe in 30 days I can finally finish all the half-completed entries languishing on laptop.
I was inspired by reading Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development [...]