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QI remember the sound of real silence. The ceremony of getting dressed. The way beauty was once considered an offering, not an indulgence.

I’m not here to recreate the past. I’m here to reclaim what was sacred in it.

I’m Susan Fleming—a writer, cultural essayist, and poetic philosopher of ritual, beauty, and becoming. My work explores what it means to live with presence, elegance, and soul structure in a modern world that rewards performance over meaning.

Before stepping fully into my literary and lifestyle work, I spent decades as a journalist, English teacher, and editor, with a deep background in performance and media. I was once Mrs. Gastonia and a runner-up in the Mrs. North Carolina pageant. I’ve been featured on billboards, worked in theatre, taught college writing, homeschooled my 3 children, and now serve as a caregiver for my 95-year-old grandmother. My lived experience bridges glamor and grit—and I bring both into everything I create.

My signature philosophy, Beauty & Beckoning™, is both a threshold and a return. It’s where velvet and honesty meet. Where grief is given rhythm. Where a woman becomes her own invitation back to herself.

Through books, essays, and soul-rooted storytelling, I write for women who are ready to slow down—not into quiet erasure, but into a deeper kind of listening. I create poetic content about:

   •   🕯 Ritual and sacred dailiness

   •   🩶 Grief, aging, and midlife resurrection

   •   💄 Beauty as a private act of reverence

   •   📚 Homemaking as memory-keeping

   •   ✍️ And the art of writing one’s life with intention

I’ve worn many titles—pageant queen, journalist, teacher, model, mother—but what I’ve always been is a threshold-keeper.

I now write to help women cross their own.

Welcome to Beauty & Beckoning™.

This isn’t a brand.

It’s a homecoming