Susan Dromey Heeter, a writer from Dover, recently let her hair go au natural white. Besides writing Joyful Musings for InDepthNH.org. Dromey Heeter is a secondary Spanish Teacher at Dover High School and the mother of two teenage daughters. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards. She also writes about thrift shopping and all things frugal in a column called “Budget Vogue” for the New Hampshire Union Leader.Feature
These Gifts Need No Ribbons
JOYFUL MUSINGS: Gifts are meant to be shared. So when my neighbors share their recipes for bread, their garden’s harvest, I am deeply grateful. I can barely grow a toenail and their garden is amazing.
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Don’t Ask. You Might Get A Belly Full of Laughs, But Only Much Later
This week I muse joyfully on the most wonderful, wonderful of events – the joyous, the raucous, the brilliant: the belly laugh. There truly is nothing better, nothing greater. And, brilliantly, I’ve had several this summer.
Traveling Light? Susan Dromey Heeter Says ‘Never’
JOYFUL MUSINGS: My husband throws in socks and underwear and he’s done. What takes him three minutes, takes me three hours. I’m not meticulous in much but in packing, oh yes.
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No Helicopter Parents, Please. It’s Summer.
It doesn’t take much. This week I muse joyfully on being grateful for simple, for the ease of a summer day and the zen of watching children run around and play hide and seek in the pants rack of Salvation Army Thrift Store in Saugus.
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If You Never Dated a Felon, Well Then …
JOYFUL MUSINGS: And this conversation led me to think of those boyfriends to whom I am not the one that got away, I am, mercifully, the one who was not asked to stay. I’m sure we all dodged a bullet.
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Advice From From Next Year’s (Maybe) Commencement Speaker
JOYFUL MUSINGS: Learn how to drive a standard. You never know when you might want to make a quick getaway, have an option to buy a fabulous five speed, might want to shake things up and pretend your station wagon is speeding down the German autobahn.
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Finding Delight on the Irish Sports Pages
JOYFUL MUSINGS: Obits, on occasion, make me laugh. I think of the woman whose obituary title read, “Member of Curves.”
The Perfect Mom Keeps A Perfect Snack Drawer
JOYFUL MUSINGS: I still haven’t put my wedding pictures into an album; my husband and I celebrated twenty years this month. I figure there is time.
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Hooray. Let’s Hear It For Mailing a Package and Surviving May
JOYFUL MUSINGS: I’d like a standing ovation as well as a trophy every time I mail a package at the post office as well as an award for returning library books on time.
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My Favorite Four-Letter Word Is …
JOYFUL MUSINGS: The Swap itself is not for the faint of heart; it involves hunting and gathering, searching and massive investigation.