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Sep 22

September, I Remember…

It’s a melancholy place I find myself in on this World Peace Day/World Gratitude Day. I am staring down the barrel of an ending that is somewhat unexpected, if not exactly sudden, and I wonder how it is that I find myself once again colossally unprepared for the experience…

Grief

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Grief

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Aug 29

August (And Everything After)

It’s that time of summer when abundance and rot start to meet, and I feel it deeply every morning that I open my eyes in August. I have been absent from this writing since July, but notes in my phone would indicate that I have been thinking on transitions and…

Summer

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August (And Everything After)
August (And Everything After)
Summer

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Jun 12

Hot Times: Summer in the City

Last week was all wildfire smoke and drought here in the Land of Pleasant Living (Maryland, for the uninitiated). Everyone with AC stayed inside while a stiff northern breeze sent massive clouds of toxic particulates swirling in and around the buildings and open windows and lungs of those less fortunate. …

Climate Change

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Hot Times: Summer in the City
Hot Times: Summer in the City
Climate Change

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·May 25

Extroverted? Here are 10 Tips to Help You STFU.

If you’re the life of every party, the loudest voice in every room, and your friends know your guffaw before they see your face — then congratulations, you might be an extrovert. …

Extrovert

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Extroverted? Here are 10 Tips to Help You STFU.
Extroverted? Here are 10 Tips to Help You STFU.
Extrovert

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Mar 25

Write Like A Motherfucker (And Other Writing Advice)

I love my “job.” It’s in quotes not because I don’t get paid for it (I do) and not because it isn’t work (it is) but because for as long as I can remember I thought I would be a writer. And technically, mostly by accident and circumstance, and also…

Writers On Writing

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Write Like A Motherfucker (And Other Writing Advice)
Write Like A Motherfucker (And Other Writing Advice)
Writers On Writing

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Feb 28

Almost Spring

It doesn’t smell like spring, but it’s 70° and I am sitting on my balcony with an evening glass of red wine, listening to children play in the alley. It’s days like this, even with the bare trees and the chill still lingering, that I enjoy the city most. I…

Grief

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Almost Spring
Almost Spring
Grief

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Feb 9

ChatGPT, or Who Needs Writers Anymore?

In my work as a freelance writer, I have been very inceptionist and written about ChatGPT, the latest AI that some are worried might replace writers like myself. Don’t fire your writers just yet. Here’s ChatGPT’s essay about me: “Suzannah Kolbeck is a writer based in Baltimore, Maryland who has…

ChatGPT

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ChatGPT, or Who Needs Writers Anymore?
ChatGPT, or Who Needs Writers Anymore?
ChatGPT

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Jan 1

Happy New Year: an Announcement and a Poem

First, sweet loves, an announcement. No social media for me for January. No TikTok. No Instagram. I need to re-evaluate my relationship to the socials. To open up a little space in my life that isn’t filled by 60-second clips of dolphins saying hello to squirrels. I need to connect…

New Year

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Happy New Year: an Announcement and a Poem
Happy New Year: an Announcement and a Poem
New Year

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Nov 18, 2022

What’s Next: Reflections on Midlife

I am 51, a woman past child-bearing years still waiting out my copper IUD. I was a teacher. I am a mother. I am a widow. I am a writer and an artist and a baker. After the pandemic my life has started to shrink just as it clears of…

Menopause

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What’s Next: Reflections on Midlife
What’s Next: Reflections on Midlife
Menopause

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Sep 12, 2022

September: the End of Summer

As is usual, apparently, August has steamrolled right through and smothered me in a warm, wet washclothy embrace. Now we are into September, and I am awash in the feelings and complicated thoughts that have arrived on the full moon in Pisces and Mercury’s retrograde phase. Last month I read…

Autumn

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September: the End of Summer
September: the End of Summer
Autumn

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Suzannah Kolbeck

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