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AI is here to help, and if not AI, some of these very sick, impoverished unemployed folks

Anyone been increasingly upset by the tone and content, the voice we might say, of recent commercials playing as part of March Madness? Two…

4 min readApr 7, 2024

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AI is here to help, and if not AI, some of these very sick, impoverished unemployed folks

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Susan Sink

Brown Winter

It was a long winter in this bonus time of my dying, no blizzards, almost no snow at all, no tractor with the new snow-blower rumbling the…

3 min readMar 7, 2024

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Wild Ice

Susan lying on the safe, frozen ice of the backyard pond, not deep or wide enough to qualify for the title “wild.”

2 min readFeb 24, 2024

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What Exactly is Failing When Banks Fail?

I don’t know about anyone else, but when I hear about a “bank run,” I immediately think of this scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. I think…

5 min readMar 28, 2023

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Waiting for the Second Biopsy

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe Sylvia Plath

1 min readFeb 18, 2023

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The Story Hall

Middlemarch

Isn’t this the human condition? Dorothea opens the notebooks expecting genius, the project to which she’s subjugated her life and not…

1 min readFeb 4, 2023

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The Story Hall

A Shed in Minnesota

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. — — Wallace Stevens

2 min readJan 10, 2023

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Susan Sink
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The Story Hall

Scrap

My husband places the paper in a sturdy box on his desk.

1 min readJan 2, 2023

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These 80 Acres

I’ve been doing some research into the history of land ownership on our farm. I knew that it had been the Sisters of the Order of Saint…

4 min readAug 27, 2022

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These 80 Acres

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Susan Sink
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The Story Hall

Valuables

Her father-in-law sends word: The house near Bucha was looted but not destroyed. She asks him to take what valuables he finds, And…

1 min readMay 12, 2022

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Susan Sink

Susan Sink

poet, writer, gardener, cook, Catholic, cancer survivor. author of 4 books of poetry and 2 novels. books at lulu.com and more writing at susansinkblog.com

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