Suzanne Guldimann

TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann is an author, artist, and musician who lives in Malibu and loves the Santa Monica Mountains. She has worked as a journalist reporting on local news and issues for almost two decades, and is the author of 13 books, including two local histories and a novel. She can be reached at suzanne@topanganewtimes.com

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Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds

Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0 10 min read

Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...

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THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Twenty-Five

Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0 9 min read

Mr Somov came to stay with us at the ranch after he was released from the hospital. He couldn’t go home to his canyon retreat, not until his broken leg was better. Once he was on his feet again...

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IN PURSUIT OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER

Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0 5 min read

The Pacific Flyway passes right overhead and fall migration is already underway, a river of birds traveling south. Billions of birds are migrating this month, many of them at night, guided by the stars. Here in the Santa Monica...

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One-Room Schoolhouse

Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0 11 min read

Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road. Public education in California was still relatively...

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Topanga Ranch Motel Gets a Reprieve

Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 18 5 min read

The historic Topanga Ranch Motel has won a reprieve. When the Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project moves forward, the motel will be restored, instead of demolished, and will eventually reopen. This small rustic row of cabins is one of the...

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Back to School

Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0 5 min read

The Topanga Times News’ office is located exactly where these school children sat in neat rows at their desks in 1951, learning reading, writing, and arithmetic. The parents of some of these children attended school in the canyon’s original...

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Desert Voices

Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0 12 min read

“‘Just now our blood dances to other music.’ They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.” The swallows in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows...

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Desert Daytrip

Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0 7 min read

A desert experience doesn’t always require one to crawl on hands and knees through the thornbush and cactus, regardless of what Edward Abbey says. Anyone seeking cactus, sandstone, and volcanic peaks need look no farther than our own Santa...

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THE COASTWATCHERS Chapter Twenty-Four

Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0 8 min read

The fire burned for almost five days. The road remained closed. There was no way Jessie, Jacob or I could get to school, but we were kept busy at the ranch. Fire crews began straggling out of the backcountry,...

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Where the Nightjars Sing

Suzanne Guldimann, August 9, 2024 0 5 min read

In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left While a cluster of nightjars sang some songs out of tune A mantle of...

TNT’s critically acclaimed political podcast, featuring Jimmy P. Morgan and Brian Chapman discussing the Constitution, returns in a new, streamlined form we’re calling Framed: Now.

The goal? Providing a concise discussion of the constant stream of constitutional crisis that threatens to upend our American system of democracy. Framed: Now offers an opportunity to discuss the implications of what has become a constant barrage of attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law. Please join us—it’s essential listening! In this episode our hosts discuss why the official government website for the Library of Congress was found to have deleted important sections of Article 1.

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