There was a story behind this. Did someone do it to me? Did someone I know do it to someone else? I forget now. Sigh.
The only thing worse than stagnating, is watching someone you love stagnate.
Which is different from enjoying one’s current life. Just sayin’.
As a writer of serial stories, I found sometimes when in a rut it helped to bring a big changer in so everyone in the story would have to deal with it. With Little Dee, it was a minivan full of penguins.
Over the years I really enjoyed expanding Susan’s character. She’s not a dynamic wild nutty person like most of the lot, but she’s sweet and interesting and I always liked her.
That was me far too many times in my 20s, embarassed to say “yes” to invitations. I have no idea why really, but it was lousy.












