Susan Pollack
Cognoscenti contributor
Susan Pollack is an award-winning journalist and author of the "Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Cookbook: Stories and Recipes." She is working on a book of personal essays.
Recently published
Walking through another pandemic winter
I’ve been coming daily to Good Harbor beach since the first pandemic lockdown two years ago, to find some space, some respite from the loss, the suffering, the uncertainty of...
Sometimes A Goose Is What's For Christmas Dinner. Sometimes It's Much More
After Christmas Eve dinner, we bundled up and went for a walk, writes Susan Pollack. I remember feeling glad to have made it through cancer treatment, glad to be part...
Quackgrass In My Garden? Oh, Ye Hurtful Weede
Once you recognize quackgrass, you will see it everywhere, writes Susan Pollack. Even in your night and day dreams.
Fishing For Progress: Saying No To 'No Women On Board'
In the spring of 1982, as women were fighting for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the author was fighting to be let onto a Japanese fishing vessel to do...
Looking For Poetry, Finding Herself: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Woman
I wanted to believe again in a dream, but I didn’t even know any more what it was.
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Beach Walk: Relishing Summer’s Last Days
I love being up and about before the rest of the world fully awakens.
Tavistock Square: A Decade After Terror, A Reminder Of Peace
The park has endured war and terrorism, yet it stands as a curious and inspiring place that celebrates life over death, civilization over destruction, peace over war.
The Slow Thaw Of A New England Spring
After the sustained adrenaline rush of a long, hard winter, embracing the gentler pace of spring, while keeping the shovel out, just in case.
The Christmas Job
A job soliciting donations in a multitude of accents sets a Salvation Army bell-ringer on the road to finding her own voice as a writer.
This Old House: Fisherman Brown's Cottage
When you buy a house, do you inherit a responsibility to its history, as well?