Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Culture

  • “Inside Out,” a tour of modern parenting

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    “Inside Out” is a truly brilliant film in several respects. The aspect most important to me as an adult is that it’s a kids’ movie that adults can not only enjoy with the kids, but enjoy separately from the kids.

  • In praise of adult ed

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    Every Wednesday evening last spring, I presented myself with a challenge. A friend encouraged me to take a jazz singing class with her at our local community college. I’d been looking for a new musical outlet, so I agreed. I nearly walked out the first night. The teacher was a venerable local swing band leader who…

  • These are people who have died

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    I imagine my friends, my family, and my “friends” after I go: They join a new online service and they get the suggestion that they “friend” me, a dead person. They will be able to comment on my work, which will still be out there—alive, as it were. People I don’t know will receive suggestions…

  • Book Review: Creative Home Schooling grows up

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    It was the weighty Bible of gifted homeschoolers. You saw it on every shelf. My copy was so coveted, one of my homeschooling friends apparently walked off with it and it hasn’t been seen on my shelves since. What was it? An extensively researched book called Creative Homeschooling by Lisa Rivero, published by Great Potential Press (who published my…

  • Impractical shoes

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    I found myself standing on one side of a sea of a chai latte river, wondering how I’d gotten myself into this pickle. I knew I shouldn’t have packed the impractical shoes. The first pair of really impractical shoes I remember owning was when I was in high school. Every girl was buying Candies boots.…