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Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
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Historical novelist, essayist, lawyer, hiker, nature-lover, dog and cat mom
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The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate: on how Persephone and Demeter are teaching me to let my daughter go.
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The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate
Legacy and Transformation—holding on, letting go, and the heart of my upcoming novel
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August 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
A Mantle and Two Lines
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July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
Writing Through the Chaos
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June 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
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Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
A few months from now, I’ll be standing in a bookstore, or at a festival, or on a Zoom square, reading from the book I’ve spent the better part of the last fifteen years writing.
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May 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🇺🇸 “Sí, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
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🇺🇸 “Sí, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
“Some things are HARD, and they take a ton of courage. But sí, se puede. It can be done.”
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April 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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My Father's Ledger
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My Father's Ledger
What Congress Doesn't Understand About Illness and Work
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April 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
When democracy is under threat, history reminds us: resistance matters.
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April 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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So excited to be part of this wonderful anthology. Thank you, Coffee Pot Book Club for making Feisty Deeds this week's read!
cathiedunn.bsky.social Cathie Dunn – Historical Fiction & History 🥰📚 @cathiedunn.bsky.social · Apr 7
Shining a bright book spotlight on award-winning short-story collection:

🌟Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women🌟

Discover intriguing tales of daring women through the ages in this Gold-medal award-winning anthology!

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#HistoricalFiction
April 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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What if Buddha was Wrong?
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What if Buddha was Wrong?
Inner Peace and Expectation
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March 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
Two Opposing Views of the Persephone Myth
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March 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Out of the Underworld
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Out of the Underworld
Reaching Out to Each Other in an Unrecognizable World
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March 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Another beautiful book with clear resonance for today's confusing world

Book Review: The End and the Beginning open.substack.com/pub/suzannes...
Book Review: The End and the Beginning
Brilliant novel set in Germany in the final days of World War II
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February 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Very recently, I was talking to people about the lack of a good outlet for ebooks, and I cannot tell you how utterly delighted I am by this news. It’s awfully nice to be utterly delighted about ANYTHING at the moment. bookshop.org/ebooks
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Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
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January 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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A good way to get away from Amazon
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
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If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
Trump's Executive Orders and All the Colors of the Rainbow
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January 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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this:

Sometimes the moral arc of the universe
does not bend in a direction that comforts us.

Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect and there are people who fall off in the process.
kpedmonds.com Kyle Edmonds, MD @kpedmonds.com · Jan 23
This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.
The text of a poem by Clint Smith beginning “When people say ‘we have made it through worse before’[…]”
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #booksky
January 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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In the Persephone Days
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In the Persephone Days
Finding beauty, justice and fairness in the bleakest days
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January 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Family secrets and story writing
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Family secrets and story writing
How a trip to Sicily unlocked a long-held family secret
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January 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
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Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
Hi, We’re The Flashies, and We Want To Publish Your Work.
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January 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Free Skate at the Civic Center

Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you consider subscribing to my newsletter through substack if you enjoy it.

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Free Skate at the Civic Center
Round and round we go
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December 31, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Letting a story take shape
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Letting a story take shape
(Or: about Thanksgiving Notebook, an as-yet-unfinished essay...)
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December 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Book Review: Dispossessed by Desiree Zamorano
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December 6, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Just a reminder that in 2020, Dr. Oz suggested that opening schools during COVID would "only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality," and that "any life is a life lost but... that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."
November 19, 2024 at 11:27 PM