Suzanne Goldsmith
@suzgold.bsky.social
Author of WASHASHORE, winner of the Green Earth Book Award, and A CITY YEAR. Writing like a maniac while getting an MFA in writing for kids at Hamline U. Watch this space!
http://www.suzanne-goldsmith.com/
http://www.suzanne-goldsmith.com/
Everybody’s talking about Trump and Epstein. I’m thinking about Michael Wolff, the so-called “journalist” who is giving real journalists a bad name. 🤮
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Everybody’s talking about Trump and Epstein. I’m thinking about Michael Wolff, the so-called “journalist” who is giving real journalists a bad name. 🤮
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The moon that dazzles me always looks much smaller when I try to capture it in a photo
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The moon that dazzles me always looks much smaller when I try to capture it in a photo
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📚👍 Moody. Intense. Stunning in every way, I AM WE will make you look at crows and community in a new light! A fantastic read aloud! jilannehoffmann.com/2025/10/10/i.... #kidli #picturebooks #nonfiction #crows #skybrarians #edusky #teachers @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social @scatterbee.bsky.social
I Am We – Perfect Picture Book Friday
* Open this book and immerse yourself in the powerful cadence, the rhythm that drives the narrative forward. Text ©Leslie Barnard Booth Illustration ©Alexandra Finkeldey I spill across the sky like…
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October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
📚👍 Moody. Intense. Stunning in every way, I AM WE will make you look at crows and community in a new light! A fantastic read aloud! jilannehoffmann.com/2025/10/10/i.... #kidli #picturebooks #nonfiction #crows #skybrarians #edusky #teachers @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social @scatterbee.bsky.social
At the beach is where I most enjoy my sweet Pip.
September 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At the beach is where I most enjoy my sweet Pip.
Never thought I would agree with Ted Cruz on anything. Cruz "called the threat of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC 'unbelievably dangerous.' ... 'right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’'”
September 19, 2025
Today U.S.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Never thought I would agree with Ted Cruz on anything. Cruz "called the threat of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC 'unbelievably dangerous.' ... 'right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’'”
Reader, I bought a $9.45 peach today.
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Reader, I bought a $9.45 peach today.
I just sat very still and watched a hummingbird dip its beak in the feeder 62 consecutive times
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I just sat very still and watched a hummingbird dip its beak in the feeder 62 consecutive times
My mom, age 87, will publish her first book next month. She is so courageous. It's a case study of her own recovery from the trauma of war, dislocation and childhood abandonment. It's available for pre-order now, from Routledge. www.routledge.com/Fighting-for...
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis is a unique account of an eight-year psychoanalysis, journaled and retrospectively annotated from the patient’s perspective in the aftermath of a trau...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My mom, age 87, will publish her first book next month. She is so courageous. It's a case study of her own recovery from the trauma of war, dislocation and childhood abandonment. It's available for pre-order now, from Routledge. www.routledge.com/Fighting-for...
Sharing this 🧵 both because I want other writers to see it and because I want to save it!
I am on a train and can only use my phone rn, so AMA. Alternately, one like = one writing tip or book publishing opinion.
To kick things off: prologues are fine as long as they’re shorter than 1000 words and not redundant with Chapter 1!
To kick things off: prologues are fine as long as they’re shorter than 1000 words and not redundant with Chapter 1!
AMA.one
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sharing this 🧵 both because I want other writers to see it and because I want to save it!
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Prime Day is a scam
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Prime Day is a scam
Amazon Prime Day is a four-day sale promoted by the mega-retailer as a rare opportunity to secure "deep discounts" on a variety of consumer items.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Prime Day is a scam
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Hungry hummer: Watched this little guy dip into the nectar 41 times in a row last night.
June 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hungry hummer: Watched this little guy dip into the nectar 41 times in a row last night.
I get so much inspo from the comments on NYT recipes…but sometimes they are like: swap in chopped turbot for the shrimp, exchange a mixture of dill and cilantro for the fresh oregano, quadruple the garlic and saute in a wok instead of under the broiler… and I’m like, why are you even using a recipe?
June 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I get so much inspo from the comments on NYT recipes…but sometimes they are like: swap in chopped turbot for the shrimp, exchange a mixture of dill and cilantro for the fresh oregano, quadruple the garlic and saute in a wok instead of under the broiler… and I’m like, why are you even using a recipe?
Here’s my favorite feedercam visitor: red-bellied woodpecker. He comes by often!
June 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Here’s my favorite feedercam visitor: red-bellied woodpecker. He comes by often!
Salem, redux. Claiming “parents’ rights,” right-wing activists in Florida are browbeating officials into denying kids access to worthy, life-affirming, award-winning books. open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Florida's literary inquisition
In a chilling meeting of the Florida State Board of Education last week, a school district superintendent was publicly browbeaten and repeatedly threatened with criminal prosecution.
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June 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Salem, redux. Claiming “parents’ rights,” right-wing activists in Florida are browbeating officials into denying kids access to worthy, life-affirming, award-winning books. open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Kristi Noem takes mad money to a whole new level.
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kristi Noem takes mad money to a whole new level.
Every time I see this building while driving into Columbus, I experience a spontaneous moment of appreciation for the correctly-placed apostrophe.
April 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Every time I see this building while driving into Columbus, I experience a spontaneous moment of appreciation for the correctly-placed apostrophe.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
constitutional order.”
constitutional order.”
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
constitutional order.”
constitutional order.”
Proud of alma mater.
Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands (Gift Article)
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Proud of alma mater.
Yes. And throw in employees of the executive branch and their families, while you’re at it.
Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Yes. And throw in employees of the executive branch and their families, while you’re at it.
When you buy a used book and wonder: was this really helpful?
April 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
When you buy a used book and wonder: was this really helpful?
An artist, using her voice. Bravo.
I'm supposed to be at
Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.
Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.
April 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An artist, using her voice. Bravo.