About Sue Skilton Orrell

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The mandate for Cries of the Panther on Mockingbird Hill, (2020) was to correct a cousin’s published false claim that I accused my father of child sexual abuse. Determined to set the record straight, I broke the cultural code of silence. Writing became a source of deep healing, reconciliation with myself, with others, and eventually with my hometown. It also launched a serious avocation after retiring from my long career as a Music Educator.

Once I found that I finally felt safe in my hometown, I sold my house in Houston, bought a house in DeLand, Florida, and moved home within three months after making the decision.

Welcome Home Me launched in September, 2023. In it, I recall many of the stories I experienced while living in seven different states where I established my career, pursued and completed graduate work, and reclaimed the childhood and adolescence that had been thwarted so long ago.  I currently am working on my third book, which has the working title, “They Came In Threes: Degrees, Divorces, and Deaths.”