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Continue reading →: Child Stars Who Made These Down-&-Out-Dad Movies Classics for MeChild stars generally don’t receive top billing, but they always steal the show IMHO. These classic films from the 1950s are no exception, even though a search for their names leads to the bottoms of promotional posters and calls for a magnifying glass to read. Seems like from the 1970s…
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Continue reading →: Bonobos Have Nothing on my Cats & a Slew of Other Household PetsThe April 2025 issue of Science magazine reports that a study of bonobos–thought to be the human’s closest evolutionary relative–shows the primate species can do what humans do: combine expressions into “nontrivial” combinations. But I’ve got news for scientists, my two cats can do that and more. And friends have…
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Continue reading →: Who’s REALLY Guilty? Classic Courtroom Dramas to Keep You WonderingEverybody loves a courtroom drama, including me. The actual courtroom? Not so much. I’ve served as an alternate juror twice–once in a murder trial. The pace is slow, the presentation of evidence is complex and tedious, and the lawyers largely lack charisma. But the worst part is being stuck with…
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Continue reading →: File Under ‘Wish I’d Said That’: Faith Salie Takes On Corporate BuzzwordsMy husband Chris shared the clip below with me Sunday morning over breakfast. It’s a subject I gently tease him about whenever he enlists me to cast my eagle editing eye over one of his business writing projects. And every time I question a buzzword or acronym, he insists the…
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Continue reading →: How the Myth of Good & Evil Twins Plays Out in Iconic FilmsI’ve known a number of identical twins through the years, mostly during school. I could always tell which one was which from looks alone. And even though each was different in some behaviors and mannerisms, I never found any of the pairs to be one good and one evil. Still,…
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Continue reading →: The Puzzle Box of Scent, Sensibility & SenescenceNow that I’m into working jigsaw puzzles again, I was chuffed to discover surrounding libraries (three!!) that offer used puzzles. It provides me with a place to recycle puzzles I’ve bought and put together, as well as being a source for new-to-me, FREE puzzles, which helps my pocketbook. Because 1,000-piece…
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Continue reading →: Top Classic Films That Celebrate Love, Luck & SynchronicityIf you’ve had a great love, you’ve probably also pondered how precariously it came to be. If you’d turned left instead of right, or took one job instead of another, would you have still found each other? Or what if your parents had never moved all those times–would you have…
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Continue reading →: Pick Your Poison & Your Pleasure: the Evolution of ‘Eve’ in Classic CinemaI admit it: I’m not much for the biblical story of Adam and Eve. You know, the one used to trace all the world’s woes back to the first woman, who talked her man into eating the forbidden apple, thus getting them both kicked out of paradise. I mean, did…
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Continue reading →: When Dreams Are Horses, This Beggar Takes Time Off to Rethink the RideThe dream didn’t TELL me to play hookey from this blog for a week and neither did its central character–a frolicking colt. The timeout was my idea now that I’m retired and don’t have parents or a truant officer spying on me and gained momentum when posting day rolled around…
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Continue reading →: Explore Classic Films About Fame & Ad Men Before Influencers & ‘Mad Men’Before ‘Mad Men’ was a television series, it was what advertising executives from the 1950s on called themselves. They were “ad men” working largely on Madison Avenue in New York, hence they nicknamed themselves “mad men.” And the world of advertising and the pursuit of fame–for a product or an…
Susan Clark Lawson
As journalist, business communicator, entrepreneur and teacher, Susan’s writing has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, literary journals and coffee table books. Her creativity has been the anonymous force behind scores of brochures, newsletters, logos, annual reports and flyers.
As a high school publications adviser, her yearbooks won top national awards from both the National Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
As a business communicator, she supervised employee publications for a Fortune 500 electric utility and eventually started her own successful writing and design business, WildCat Communications.
She earned accredited business communicator (ABC) status from the International Association of Business Communicators, for which she served as an international executive board member, tri-state district director and Indianapolis chapter president, among other roles. IABC International named Indianapolis Midsized Chapter of the Year for 1996, the year Susan was its president, and in 1998, the chapter reciprocated by naming Susan its Communicator of the Year.
In 2005 she trained with Amherst Writers & Artists and since then has led hundreds of supportive, generative creative-writing workshops, both in person and virtually, through libraries and in her home, employing AWA methods.
Now (mostly) retired, Susan lives with her husband of more than 35 years and their two sassy cats in a light-filled brick house on a quiet lake in Indiana, where all enjoy watching the wildlife. She’s an active volunteer with the local Purdue Extension Service and an Advanced Master Gardener.
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