MISCELLANEOUS

Spanish/English Worksheets para planeando promociónes por empresas pequeñas en Sonoma County.

WHITE PAPERS

Authored for Field Research by Susan Starbird: the California Wellness Foundation's white paper on healthcare workforce diversity: Developing California's Healthcare Workforce of Tomorrow (2006).

RANTS and PARODIES

Wild geese protest imminent deportation to the frozen north in Ranta canadensis (2010)

Nature is a mess: a rant of spring.  (2009)

Deliberations on legacy-lessness in Ad Astra and Back Again  (2004)

Wrestling with Money, now in audio. (2003)

Beowulfians' podcast on KRCB includes Susan's voice reading from John Gardner's Grendel and her own poetry near the end. (2008)

Radio essay on WordPlay, a monthly mini-feature within KRCB's Wednesday-night Word by Word program (2005). 

MEDITATIONS

Probably not the kind of writing you expect about the serene sport of kayaking.  Get the anthology, Four Dimensions of Kayaking  (2010)

You don't come to America to argue about the price of tomatoes.  Get the how-to piece titled "FAQs at www.russianbride.com" which is part of the work-in progress "What A Woman Does" (2008).

Newly revised, utterly overhauled lyric essay on Talent (2004)

Ruminations on Beowulf, airing 5/14/08 on KRCB's A Novel Idea (2007).

MEMOIR

When colors meant everything.  Click for a snapshot of the author at 15.  (2009)

Brooding over 25 cocoons living in the refrigerator.  Click for more about raising bees.  (2009)

Motorcycling across South America, a Travelogue mainly by Mish (2009)

Confessing my collection of shoes in Susan's Personal Shoe Inventory (last update 2009)

"Family Anthology" is a 30+-page collection of essays written between 2003 and 2009 about Susan Starbird's parents.   Among other essays, it includes the meditative "Water," the creepy actuarial tale "The Thing That Will Get You," parents' voices in "Who Was That Masked Man" and  "Mother's Milk," and Susan's identity crisis in "Before I Was Jewish."   Click here to get the latest version.

Mish goes shopping for shoes with Susan in Spain (2003)

Remembering Carolyn Starbird (2006)

Blowing her one chance to prove intelligence: IQ test anxiety (2005)

Contributed specks of illumination regarding sin, success and writing. (2005-2003)

How should your creations "live" after you die?  Work in progress.  Get reviewer's copy (2005).

What to think when your heart stops: Heart Monitor (2004)

FICTION

A unicellular organism philosophizes on life in Divide, Work, Die (2010)

The story of Dot, the woman who hopes for a visitation from a large predator (2010).  A long short story or a short novella.

Christmas In Antarctica (2008), first chapter of a multi-author collaborative novella.

A new pet drives Jen's husband to an act of desperation.  (2009)

Shame, blame, and forgiveness.  Plans (2008).

Outfitting the Supreme Prize, a shopping triptych (2007)

The story of Dave and Darlene and the car that kept them together (2008).