http://suehodara.com/blog Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Monday marked a milestone in our lives and started a new chapter for us with the birth of our son. It was an awesome experience, and we feel truly blessed. Well before his birth, and during this past week of getting used to one another and a whole new way ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/15/happy-birthday/ The media world is abuzz (and rightfully so) over a case of not only blatant plagiarism and unbelievable chutzpah. In response to being called out on her crime, an editor replied to the writer she stole from with such sheer disregard it was disgusting. The disregard was not only for this ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/05/words-worth/ These days, I'm realizing day by day, even minute by minute, just how valuable time is. I spent today doing a lot of work... what normally takes me a few days to do, I did in one day. Was I just not being productive before? No, I don't think that's it... ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/04/appreciating-luxury/ There's the old saying "Art imitates life..." but I think in having written the last scene in my play, life will, if not imitate, be inspired by art. When I was conceiving the scene, I wasn't sure I'd be able to write it because I hadn't fully gone through the experience ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/03/life-imitating-art/ Sometimes, when you're used to creating worlds from thin air, you get used to having a good bit of control (or at least thinking you do), and a hand in planning and crafting how things turn out. But the way things turn out in the real world can be and ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/02/the-art-of-surrender/ I had been fretting about it for the last few weeks... meeting my deadline for Reflection. It was yesterday evening, around six o'clock (six hours before the midnight deadline), that I treated Scott to a rendition of We Are the Champions. I had gotten up from the kitchen table victorious. My ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/11/01/champions-circle/ I love Halloween for so many reasons... Chocolate never hurts, neither do scary stories or Snoopy. Plus all those pumpkins like the one pictured, and the costumes!!! Halloween, more than any other holiday brings out the kid in all of us, and give us a way to channel our sense of ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/10/29/happy-haloween/ Too often, we eschew our basic instincts and end up chasing after puffs of smoke. It took me years, YEARS, of following the wrong paths... paths others were looking to forge, and at the end of the day, I always felt sorry; sorry for having wasting my time, energy, and talents ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/10/28/basic-instincts/ Today was about figuring out the solutions to little problems... Nothing earth shattering or anything, but things that needed to be taken care of all the same. When I found I was really intent and intensely focused on solving the problems, they seemed so much bigger, and I felt like I ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/10/27/setting-the-stage-for-creativity/ Joe Stein, the librettist of Fiddler on the Roof passed away at the ripe old age of 98 a few days ago. As a Jew, and the daughter of immigrant parents, I've always had a special place in my heart for the show, as many people do. And though he wrote ... http://suehodara.com/blog/2010/10/26/from-the-rooftops/