Writer on Stress in American Cities, Blogger for The Serene City

01/30/2024

Need a break from the news? Here are a book and a movie I hope you'll enjoy.

Plus an enjoyable movie about knowing how good you have it now

01/26/2024

Some respected historians are telling us that American fascism is real, it's here, and we might be better off if we called it what it is.

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Said by journalist and author Jeff Sharlet on YouTube after the New Hampshire primary

02/23/2023

The Feldman Ecopark Zoo in Kharkiv, Ukraine continues its struggle to survive Putin's war.
See article at The Serene City, TheSereneCity.Substack.com

Kharkiv's Feldman Ecopark Zoo continues its struggle to survive

02/23/2023

For an update, with photos, on how a Kharkiv zoo I wrote about last May is surviving Putin's war, please see my article with photos, "A Zoo in Ukraine: Update."
It's on my blog, The Serene City. https://theserenecity.substack.com/

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Kharkiv's Feldman Ecopark Zoo continues its struggle to survive

02/17/2023

About Bad Things You Never Expected to Happen to You

Weird medical mysteries: one happened to me, and I'm recovering. But it told me something I'd long suspected is really ​true: our minds' effects on our physical selves can be astonishing.​​ See at https://theserenecity.substack.com/p/about-bad-things-you-never-expected​

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07/10/2019

"Trump, the Border, & Depression" at www.TheSereneCity.com

07/10/2019

Please see my new post at www.TheSereneCity.com, on Trump, the Border, and Depression. It discusses PTSD and depression being caused at the border but also in the US in general, since this administration began. It offers at least a temporary plan to start rebuilding ruined lives at the border, and a plan to help begin rebuilding the country's mental health in these extremely stressful times. Go to www.TheSereneCity.com to read.

Posted on July 9, 2019July 10, 2019Trump, the Border, & Depression on the 4th of July (May we ask that, before or after you read the post, if you’re a subscriber, you let us know if you received an email notifying you of the new post? That mechanism on the blog site hasn’t been working, and we.....

03/05/2019

Please see my latest update on 5G and write your representatives in government about it. It's at my blog The Serene City and the post link is

Posted on March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 by Susan CookeNewest 5G information I hope you won’t think of me as just a reporter of bad news, which I don’t want to be, but rather a reporter of news about things we can fight against when they just don’t make sense such as rushing into implementing “a...

02/04/2019

Please read my update on 5G cell towers soon to be rolled out even though people are already suffering from their effects. You can help stop this now by writing to your government representatives. Go to my blog The Serene City,

Posted on February 3, 2019February 4, 2019 by Susan Cooke5G Update February 2019 Susan Cooke I just heard a commentator on CNN mention that soon “They’ll be rolling out 5G,” as he talked about other innovations and changes the country will have to face in the near future. I wrote here about 5G...

02/04/2019

Please read my update on 5G cell towers soon to be rolled out even though people are already suffering from their effects. You can help stop this now by writing to your government representatives. Go to my blog The Serene City, http://www.theserenecity.com/2019/02/03/5g-update-february-2019/

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12/30/2018

Do leaf-blowers, low-flying planes, diesel trucks, and other chronic loud industrial noises get you down when you're trying to relax at home or in a garden or park in the city? See the post on what this does to your mental and physical health and some things you can do, along with other posts on noise and other city stresses, at my blog The Serene City. It's www.theserenecity.com.