Posts by Sue Hollister Barr

Loco Love

Carol
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Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Fist First

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Savoring Solitude

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Bountiful Boundaries

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Hospital Healing

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  My hope…

Dropping Dead

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  My hope…

Punishing Parameters

Carol
Carol Kirkpatrick, possibly the brightest writer I ever met in a writing group (proof positive being her ability to scribble out a pithy, brilliantly crafted story on the spot) had the additional charm of treating me to an oral history of Brooklyn whenever we walked its streets together.  Combining warmth,…

Raucous Res

Other Stuff
Married with children.  Closeted in a predictable, somewhat sterile, suburbia. It was a sudden overabundance of dental bills that pushed me over the edge. I’d been living off the father of my children for a very long time.  My youngest child had finally entered school, ending my excuse to pursue…

Dad’s Dementia

Aging
It started with his complaining that he was forgetting names. I pooh-poohed it, pointing out that I was 30 years younger and I never remembered people’s names. In retrospect I shouldn’t have used myself as a yardstick. My dad had spent his life working with large groups of people whose…

Ridiculous Rating

Reviews
Total Recall (2012) I’ve always loved imdb.com but their 6.2-out-of-10 rating for the 2012 version of Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Bokeem Woodbine, is nothing short of criminal.  This brilliantly inventive, supremely high-octane, sci fi film deserves no less than…and I’m being conservative here…an 11.  The world-building alone, with…
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