Susan Dugan

  • Susan Dugan ~ Runaway Bunny

    Runaway Bunny by Susan Dugan* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Another Story from   “Read it again, Mama,” my then two-year-old daughter would chant night after night at bedtime. And regardless of how tired I was, I would start over, vaguely conscious even then… Continue reading

    Susan Dugan ~ Runaway Bunny
  • Susan Dugan ~ Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness

      Crusader Rabbit Retires by Susan Dugan* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Another Story from By far the most popular of the humiliating nicknames I endured in junior high (Susan of Arc, Susan of Troy, etc.) was “Crusader Rabbit;” in honor of the TV… Continue reading

    Susan Dugan ~ Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness
  • Susan Dugan

      Some Things Will Never End by Susan Dugan* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~ [as it appeared in the February 2011 Newsletter] This essay was excerpted from her book of personal forgiveness essays, Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness, being published by O-Books March 25, 2011. My teenage… Continue reading

  • Susan Dugan

      The Snake Goes Blind By Susan Dugan* ~*~*~*~*~ [as it appeared in the November 2010 Newsletter]     They say the snake goes blind while shedding its skin and in its blindness finally sees. Do I need you like the snake… Continue reading

  • Susan Dugan

    Come With Nothing to Find Everything  by Susan Dugan* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~ [as it appeared in the September 2010 Newsletter]               Catching a quick bite to eat last weekend our daughter informed us that a friend’s older sister, a college sophomore, had… Continue reading

  • Susan Dugan

    THIS is the WORK  by Susan Dugan* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~ [as it appeared in the August 2010 Newsletter]               The first Lent following my First Communion I got the hare-brained idea of attending 6 a.m. mass every day before school at… Continue reading