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Suzanne Casamento
- Sep 21, 2022
- 3 min
Let's Talk About Banned Books, Baby
Let's take a moment to channel our inner Salt-N-Pepa: Let's talk about banned books baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Travel's Greatest Gift: Perspective
“That traffic out there is murder!” said a man in the Vermont village post office. “I know! I waited forever,” a woman replied. I...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Aug 27, 2022
- 2 min
Unlearning the Stories We Tell Ourselves
“Suzie got kicked out of the ballet when she was four.” That’s a family story I’ve heard ever since I can remember. The story goes...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Aug 12, 2022
- 4 min
Drinking the Kool Aid and Dirty Dancing on Gopher Pond
A giant black and white photo of a group of people who look like campers straight out of the 1979 movie “Meatballs” hangs on the wall of...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Aug 5, 2022
- 4 min
Covid, Ureaplasma, and the Psychic Medium
After returning to the US, I woke up with a porcupine in my throat. My head and lungs filled with gunk and I felt like I was glued to the...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
Reunion
It’s like this YOU glow Eyes the brightest blue Belief in your words Finally sure That you’re good enough YOU are the luckiest man in the...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
I'm Writing a Memoir About Healing Chronic Lyme Disease
I recently attended an amazing writing retreat and residency in Greece offered by fabulous authors and magical humans, Kate Emmerson and...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jul 7, 2022
- 4 min
Boo and Shorty Board The FUN Boat
“Kalimera!” Nicole and I said as we stepped onto the sailboat in Mykonos Harbor. “Kalimera!” Two pretty dark-haired women and a man and a...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jul 2, 2022
- 4 min
Mykonos and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ferry Bad Day
“Let’s take a ferry. It will be fun!” I said while Nicole and I were FaceTiming and planning our Greece trip a few months ago. Boy, was I...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jun 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Flying Dress in Santorini
When someone in my female digital nomad group posted photos of herself in a red flowing dress that popped against the blue sea and white...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jun 20, 2022
- 6 min
Hammama Mia!
When MJ, another writer on the fabulous Greece writing retreat I'm attending asked, “Do you want to go to the hammam?” I said, “Sure!...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
The Thing About Things
I need that dress To fix this mess of a life I've chosen to live Oh, what I'd give to have that car That face That space I'll race To get...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
Ampcoil and The Stye in My Eye in Greece
I imagine most women like to post pics of themselves when they look pretty. Me? Nah! I'm posting these pics because the coolest thing...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Jun 5, 2022
- 3 min
Living the Dream in Lesvos, Greece
I'm in Lesvos, Greece in a tiny village called Skala Eresou. A coastal village so tiny that when the summer is over, the people who live...
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Suzanne Casamento
- May 22, 2022
- 4 min
Travel Lessons Learned and What I'm Doing Differently
The countdown to Greece is on! Seven days and 1 hour until blast-off. Meanwhile, there's a lot to do to get ready. As I prepare, I'm...
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Suzanne Casamento
- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
The Countdown to Slowing Down in Greece
In 16 days, 3 hours and 17 minutes, I'm going to Greece. And hell yes, I'm counting the minutes. But before I go, there's a lot of...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Apr 30, 2022
- 2 min
50
When I turned 40, I was so happy that I didn't even get mad when Stacie shoved cake in my face. My 30's were shitastic. I'd had a series...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Apr 25, 2022
- 3 min
Bad Smells and Other Hotel Non-Negotiables
In the opening of Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, an innocent British couple describes how they booked a vacation package...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Apr 13, 2022
- 2 min
When You're Home but Can't Go Home
From the air, LA is a massive grid of never-ending sprawling lights. I remember the first time I saw it, a 22-year-old kid, face pressed...
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Suzanne Casamento
- Apr 8, 2022
- 5 min
My Chronic Lyme Disease Healing Journey
In 2012, I moved into a little beach shack right across the street from the ocean. It was kind of junky, but I didn't care. Walks on the...
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