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A Year and Then Some…

February 20, 2017 by Susan J. Kroupa 2 Comments

A very long year… It’s been fourteen months since my last blog about the extraordinary support we received during my daughter’s illness and death from colon cancer.  (And, again, if you’re due for a colonoscopy, please don’t put it off. Yeah, the prep tastes like fruit punch infused with rusted metal and laced with turpentine, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Home, Nonfiction Tagged With: designer dogs, dogs, labradoodles, new release, puppies, Ruff-Housed

Hands of the Master

September 24, 2012 by Susan J. Kroupa Leave a Comment

September is National Piano Month and in a serendipitous event (as in totally unplanned but lucky), Laurel Fork Press has just published my story, “Hands of the Master.”  I don’t plan to be confessional about all my stories, but I will admit this story came partly (okay, maybe mostly) from my experiences as a piano […]

Filed Under: Blog, Home Tagged With: classical music, hand size, hand surgery, Horowitz, obsession, piano competitions, practice, Rachmaninoff

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