Journeys with the Authors

In our chef costumes

Left: Honora Finkelstein
Right: Susan Smily

Left: Honora Finkelstein
Right: Susan Smily

Hatching a mystery series

Left: Susan Smily
Right: Honora Finkelstein

 Honora Finkelstein

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     Honora Finkelstein has been an intelligence officer with the U. S. Navy, a college professor, and a prize-winning newspaper editor for ARCOM newspapers in Northern Virginia.  She has published over 140 articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals and has taught writing and self-development workshops across the United States and Canada.  She is a part-time editor with EEI Communications in Alexandria, Virginia, and has worked for such companies as the Public Policy Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Cook County Law Enforcement Agency, the World Bank, and the American Institute of Architects. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and the International Women's Writing Guild; she was a workshop director for the latter organization for 15 years. She has also been a contributing editor and columnist for Pathways magazine in Washington, D.C. for 12 years. She has a Ph.D. in English and currently teaches Western culture and literature at the University of Southern Indiana as an adjunct associate professor.

     Her interest in ghosts and metaphysical subjects goes back to childhood, and in the 1990s she produced and hosted a talk show called Kaleidoscope for Tomorrow on metaphysical and futurist topics on community cable television in Fairfax, Virginia. She has interviewed such notable writers and thinkers as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying),  P. M. H. Atwater (Beyond the Light, Future Memory, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near Death Experiences), and Laurie Monroe of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. In the summer of 2004 she presented a lecture at the 2nd International Conference on the Future of the Humanities in Prato, Italy, entitled “A New Model for Expansion of Individual Consciousness: Ego Death in Literature, Religion, and the Phenomenon of Near-Death Experiences.

 Susan Smily

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     During her 25 years in the classroom, Susan was an author, publisher, and workshop leader in elementary science education in Canada, Australia, and the United States. She created her own business for the development and production of a wide range of elementary education materials, and worked as a writer, editor, and consultant with several educational programs. She has made presentations at over 40 school and district professional development days.

     She is also the author of “Pianissimo,” a one-act play, which was presented off Broadway on April 13-15, 1998, at the Festival of Collective Voices, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York, NY. 

     She has traveled extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and the Far East. She developed an interest in metaphysical studies in the early 1990s, and has since become involved in studying many different areas of spirituality, including Native American, Vedanta, and Kabbalah and is a Reiki teacher-master, a certified hypnotherapist, and a Hemi-Sync® Outreach instructor for the Monroe Institute.

     She presented a lecture in the summer of 2004 at the 2nd International Conference on the Future of the Humanities in Prato, Italy, entitled “Making Sense of the World Through Allegory, Analogy, and Conceptual Categories: Dealing with the Information Era at Any Age.”

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by Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily.

Updated: 02/04/2008