by Susan Matley | Nov 4, 2022 | Official Blog
Lately, my life seems to be full of presentations. Some are by friends of mine (I’m a regular audience member at Fort Walla Walla Museum’s Living History program); other times, I’ve been the presenter. I’ve recently made a classroom appearance as a time traveler from...
by Susan Matley | Oct 31, 2022 | Events
I am honored to be the final presenter for Walla Walla County Rural Library District’s 50th Anniversary speaker series! “Myth-Taken Identities: Using the Greek Pantheon in Fiction” starts at Noon, Saturday, November 5th, Touchet Fire Hall, Touchet,...
by Susan Matley | Oct 28, 2022 | Official Blog
Halloween approaches! With ghosts and goblins and particularly skeletons on the horizon, what better time to think about bones? That seems like a limited topic. Last week I would have agreed with you, Lily, but this week I received the results of my bone...
by Susan Matley | Oct 21, 2022 | Official Blog
In this world of marketing and other fake news, I think most of us are aware that what things are called influences how we respond to them. People in the advertising industry have known this and used it against us for centuries, as have politicians. In those contexts...
by Susan Matley | Oct 14, 2022 | Official Blog
Don’t let the title of this blog fool you, it is not violent in content! I am using the term “hack” in the sense of “life hack,” defined by an online dictionary as “a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more...