Susan Tromanhauser's Writing Blog

Sue Hincenbergs’ novel The Retirement Plan was first introduced to me through an Instagram account. My friend Glenda was pictured proudly holding up a book to announce her cousin Sue had published her first book. Intrigued by her post, I just had to get my own copy. I’m so glad I did.

My grade two spelling programme was very prescribed. Monday, we painfully printed the weekly list words from our Nelson speller into our notebooks. Because I was in the “Robin” reading group, I was also expected to write a sentence for at least five of the new words. Tuesday and Wednesday we completed exercises about the words, practicing rhyming schemes, pluralization, contractions or whatever else the people at Nelson publishing house thought was important for grade two stu