Suzanne Uttaro Samuels

Suzanne Uttaro Samuels

@susamuels.bsky.social

Historical novelist, essayist, lawyer, hiker, nature-lover, dog and cat mom

77 Followers 132 Following 28 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 months ago
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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

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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8 months ago
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin A Mantle and Two Lines

Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
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8 months ago
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning? Writing Through the Chaos

Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
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9 months ago
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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.

Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
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10 months ago

welfare for white men

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10 months ago
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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.”

🇺🇸 “Sí, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
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11 months ago
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My Father's Ledger What Congress Doesn't Understand About Illness and Work

My Father's Ledger
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11 months ago
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest When democracy is under threat, history reminds us: resistance matters.

What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
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11 months ago

So excited to be part of this wonderful anthology. Thank you, Coffee Pot Book Club for making Feisty Deeds this week's read!

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11 months ago
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What if Buddha was Wrong? Inner Peace and Expectation

What if Buddha was Wrong?
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11 months ago
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness Two Opposing Views of the Persephone Myth

The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
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1 year ago
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Out of the Underworld Reaching Out to Each Other in an Unrecognizable World

Out of the Underworld
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1 year ago
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Book Review: The End and the Beginning Brilliant novel set in Germany in the final days of World War II

Another beautiful book with clear resonance for today's confusing world

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1 year ago
Bookshop.org US Explore digital books on Bookshop.org

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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1 year ago

What the fuck is happening? Is this how TikTok got to stay in U.S.?

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1 year ago

A good way to get away from Amazon

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1 year ago

UNREAL. Unions are more important than ever, in workplaces increasingly controlled by oligarchs. The yes vote to unionize Whole Foods yesterday has to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board. Wanna guess how that's going to go?

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1 year ago

that's the truth. unlimited campaign spending by billionaires is what got us into this situation.

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1 year ago

Yeah. It's a real win-win situation.

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1 year ago

poor cutie! I hope he's on the mend soon!

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1 year ago
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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

If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
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1 year ago

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.

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1 year ago
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#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #booksky

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1 year ago
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In the Persephone Days Finding beauty, justice and fairness in the bleakest days

In the Persephone Days
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1 year ago
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Family secrets and story writing How a trip to Sicily unlocked a long-held family secret

Family secrets and story writing
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1 year ago
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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.

Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
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1 year ago

LOVE

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1 year ago
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Free Skate at the Civic Center Round and round we go

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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1 year ago
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Letting a story take shape (Or: about Thanksgiving Notebook, an as-yet-unfinished essay...)

Letting a story take shape
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1 year ago

Book Review: Dispossessed by Desiree Zamorano
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