Susan Mary Malone

Don’t’cha just love when someone tells you to do something?  My first reaction is always to go the other way! But I’m writing this for a reason.  LOL. I have people ask me, literally every day, for something good to read.  Every single day.  Because they can’t find anything worth reading. And I know why.  […]

Because that’s where it lives, no?  We all know that it isn’t what happens to you that matters, but how you react to it.  We know that, right?  At least in our heads . . . It’s getting to where we live that’s the tough part.  I can know something, believe it, ascribe to it […]

We live in a precarious world.  Often, in our country of freedom and plenty, we forget that.  Especially we can forget what the rest of the world is like for women. It took a long, arduous fight by women activists in this country to attain basic rights, such as the ability to vote and own […]

Boy, is it just me or does it seem like we’re just barraged with one holiday after another?  Wasn’t it just Christmas?  New Year’s?  With all those resolutions? Then comes the Super Bowl and even folks who hate football will party hearty and all those resolutions fly smooth out the window. Right on its heels […]

We’re always wanting to break habits.  Unless they’re good habits!  Foster those! But most bad habits involve thinking.  All that negative self-talk leads us to do things we don’t really want to do.  I always love the definition of addiction that says, “Not being able to get enough of what you never wanted in the […]

We know that, right?  And usually when we’re talking about giving, the focus is on charity donations of some kind, whether that be monetary, time, etc. But there’s a deeper essence to giving.  The very best thing you can ever give is of yourself. I’m not talking about the time-and-money category.  You were put here […]

Life is filled with unexpected twists and turns.  Happens to us all.  Whether facing an old foe or a new one, we sometimes stand startled at what lies ahead. When forced into a change—be it job related, a personal transition, a realization that your way of being isn’t working anymore—so often we feel as if […]

We all have too much to do, no?  Do you ever just look around and think, Man, how did life get so crazy?  When can we slow down? Even if your life is pretty much on an even keel, there are those days . . .   And in the frenzy, we make lists.  Lots […]

Do you want to write a book?  Has that idea been percolating around in your head for a while, not letting you go?  Do you think you have a bang-up story within you?  Have you committed to that goal this year? Then I applaud you!  I know of nothing so meaningful, so filled with purpose […]

I mean, I did.  It was right there—on my “to do” list.  Right up at the top.  So why didn’t it get done? I can provide a thousand reasons.  Can’t you?  You make that list, sometimes more than one, and that “thing” doesn’t get done.  Because of course, we don’t want to do it! We […]

Well, yeah.  It is not news to women but men are idiots.  And now we have a study in the British Medical Journal confirming it!  As if we needed that.  Any person on the planet who even knows a man already knew this.  But since it’s now a scientific fact, we can gleefully play with […]

And it’s not just an airy-fairy feel-good thought!  Even though we didn’t need actual studies for this, I always like them J  But anyone who’s ever volunteered or given back in any way knows the huge benefits of the power of giving. We talk a lot about the serotonin rise when doing something good for […]