By encouraging word-play and sponsoring contests, she offered list members a welcome creative respite from fear, pain and depression. Her hilarious poetry celebrated holidays and special events. And she poked good-humored fun at all of us, for our posturing and the roles we played in our community. Puffie, especially, was able to get away with jibes no mere mortal would have been permitted. Sue's writing was always surprising, always clever, and often profound.
Laughter is a precious commodity for people dealing with breast cancer.
List members began to look forward to Sue's contributions with a passion that bordered on adulation. Her fan mail was out of hand, Sue confided to me more than once when posts from grateful list members overfilled her mailbox.