My work as a writer is only as rich and deep as my regard and affection for the people and places in my life. Much of my writing honors those people and places, even if they show up as some part of the characters or backdrops in my fiction or as real life people and locales in biographies, memoirs, inspirational profiles or travel pieces.
|
BOOKS
|
Surviving Cancer ~ The Magic Ingredients
by Martha Frost (edited by Susan Stroh)
Subtitled "Inspiration and Practical Advice from a Cancer Survivor," this book focuses on down-to-earth, effective solutions so necessary to meeting the challenges of cancer. (available at Amazon.com)
|
|
From Immigrant to Innovator:
The Vision, Work and Legacy of Adolf Schoepe
A century-long journey of a German farmboy, born in 1904, who builds an empire in the United States.
|
|
|
Dancing with Gravity!
This novella is a rescue and rehabilitation story about a teenaged runaway. A companion piece to the book Change Your Posture, Change Your Life.
|
Change Your Posture, Change Your Life!
Co-written with chiropractor Dr. Mike Spearman, this book offers an expanded view of the concept of posture.
While it includes physical exercises and stretches, it also goes way beyond “stand up straight” and explores
mental and spiritual postures we can master in order to achieve positive changes in all aspects of our lives.
|
|
ARTICLES
Writers' Journal —
The Complete Writer’s Magazine (published since 1980) is a bi-monthly, 64-page publication directed toward all writers.
|
Writer's Journal
On Writing Biography
Ten Hats You Might Have to Wear
An overview how-to/memoir on writing biography.
Writer's Journal
The New Writing Partnership
How to Make it Work for You
A colorful and informative look on how to choose and make happen a happy, effective writing partnership.
|
Whole Life Times
Creating an Inspired Life
Three inspirational Speakers suggest ways to get out of a rut, and hint how our lives can be our greatest works of art.
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times Travel Section
Destination: Nicaragua
Tranquility in an Old Trouble Spot
"The next best discovery," they told me. This travelogue/human interest feature shows how the gentle, gentile beauty of Nicaragua transformed one journalist's skepticism into enthusiasm and respect.
|
Whole Life Times
Sojourn to Sayulita or The Art of Traveling Light
A traveler to a tiny fishing village on mainland Mexico learns five lessons in living and traveling light.
|
|
|
Wilderness Wisdom,
How it Works for You
The remarkable National Geographic photographer turned inspirational speaker is profiled here in an aesthetic manner.
Click here to display article as a PDF file.
|
Rags and Riches of the Past
This interview/profile illuminates how one woman transforms the poverty and difficulties of youth into spiritual success and prosperity by salvaging what was right and rich in her past. The article is in turns, funny, poignant and inspirational.
|
|
|
Pastoral Life
Hello Somebody
An interview with a Reverend in Compton, California, who is wearing the mantle of his hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, making a personal difference with his organization in the area of literacy.
|
Grit Magazine
Heide's Barnyard
Tells the story of how a woman activist led the transformation of a dilapidated school barnyard into a place where city kids, age 3-7, daily witness and participate in the miracles of nature and nurture.
|
|
|
Grit Magazine
War Hero Teaches from the Heart
A W.W.II Veteran in his eighties, who landed in Normandy in June 1944 and fought the war in two theaters, teaches high school students about that time in history.
|
MovieMaker Magazine
Copyright Protection in the Digital Age
Co-written by Karen Holly and Susan Stroh
|
|
|
Inside Film Magazine Online
Scandinavian Film Fest Takes Place in Beverly Hills
This coverage reveals insights into some of the exciting film offerings from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland at the 6th Annual Scandinavian Film Festival.
|
Discover Maine Magazine
Sunny Blues
Sunny Blues is a memoir about two young sisters on a blueberry hunting adventure in Maine, as recalled by one sister 40 years later.
|
|
SCREENPLAYS
|
Cloudberries
A romantic drama about a woman who feels compelled to return to the wilds of Finnish Lapland to find her first lover and reclaim a lost part of herself.
|
Breaking Mason's Jar
A romantic drama about a coddled white Southern debutante who falls in love with her black male nurse when he inspires her to really live as he talks, sings and cares for her while she's in a coma and afterward as their relationship twists and turns.
|
 
|
SHORT STORIES
|
The Kernel
A story about an elderly Colonel who has ruled his way through life only to find one day that he has no one close to his forgotten heart. A little girl next door gives him hope that there is a kernel of love and trust within him that he might give and thus feel needed again. (This won an award from Writer's Digest Magazine, #8 out of a competing 13,000 in the mainstream genre.)
|
Angel Hitched A Ride with Me
A girl relates her thoughts to us during and right up to the minute she gives birth to the baby she's chosen to give up.
|
|
|
Eva's Phone Call
A woman who dies contacts her "exchange student daughter" seconds after death with an intriguing message and an invitation.
|
|
