Susan A. Sullivan
Age: 58
Ethnicity: Irish, Italian (pasta and potatoes)
Religion: Roman Catholic (practicing)
Occupation: Psychologist (Ph.D.)
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Residing: Atlanta, GA
Pets: 2 cats
Interests: the State of New Mexico, reading, writing, prayer, cats, old movies, Russell Crowe!, my family and friends)

My passion is ...

freedom of spirit

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

to fold my hands and act like a lady.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be Mrs. Zorro, and Indian princess, Queen of Spain.

My favorite memory ...

is riding around the dusty dirt roads of the Eastern Navajo reservation.

Why I write ...

I love words, language, and using them.

My first job ...

waitress in a Bingo hall (high school)

My best moment ...

has yet to come

My inspiration ...

Sisters Maureen and Barb, my father, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Infatuation

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From 1998 to 2005, I was lucky enough to live in Crownpoint, New Mexico. Crownpoint is the hub of the Eastern Navajo reservation and it is not much of a hub, just a small collection of government buildings, hospital, school, one grocery store,several churches, and a few hundred homes. No banks, no library, no movie house, no "dollar stores." I had relocated to Crownpoint, sight unseen(!), from Baltimore, Maryland where I had completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical School. The two could not have been more different.

In June 2005, I was forced to take early retirem...

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