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Channeling Nixon
Roger Stone’s tattoo notwithstanding, I’m not sure Tricky Dick would be the image I’d want to replicate right now. As Stone exits the Florida courtroom after his arrest, the former campaign aide...
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Trump is No Richard Nixon
Lies and Deceit -A Country Out of Order Has it begun to feel the country has gone completely Mad? Or is it deja vu all over again. The ceaseless onslaught of breaking news, daily scandals and...
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Football Fans Fantasy
In a world where you can watch 800 channels of television shows not only on your flat screen TV but on your laptop, iPad, or iPhone, choose between a soccer match in South Africa or football in...
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The Beatles and Ed Sullivan -She Loved You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Can it really be over a half a century since the Beatles burst into our lives on an ordinary Sunday night after which nothing would be the same again? There are few of my generation who do not recall...
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Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees!
Just as every girl had her favorite Beatle, so it was with the Monkees. While lead singer Davy Jones blew the minds of most prepubescent girls right into orbit with his devilish English accent, Peter...
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When Movies Were Black and White- Jim Crow
For many, movie going meant being turned away from the box office of a white theater, climbing outside stairs to the balcony section “reserved for colored” moviegoers, being allowed to enter a white...
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Art Show – Remembering What Was Forgotten
I am very pleased my collage Remembering What Was Forgotten-Traumatic Memory was selected to be part of the National Association of Women Artist’s national exhibition Collage/Mixed Media The Art of...
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Great Hemline Battle 1970 Mini v.s. Midi
1970 was a year of great cultural divides. Alongside war protests and racial unrest, women were in revolt. But in a year of turmoil there was one divisive issue that captivated the media. A hot...
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Parkland Shooting Tragedy – The After Shocks
Not all wounds are visible. The trauma the children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experienced did not end with the last bullet fired on that ghastly day in Parkland. That’s when it begins....
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Women and Beauty- Is there an Expiration Date?
Today I turn 64 and if I am to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration date of desirability as a woman. In fact to accept conventional wisdom about women, nothing matches their fear of...
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Equal Pay Day- Catch Up Time
On Equal Pay Day we again learn about uneven division. Today is our annual reminder that women’s pay is not in fact equal to men’s. It’s that annual point in the year when the average woman’s pay...
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Joe Biden -A Touchy Subject
Joe Biden’s behavior has become a touchy subject. A second woman has come forward accusing the former Vice President of inappropriate contact that made her feel uncomfortable. I have no doubt these...
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Will Campaign Baby Kissing Become Taboo?
Politics is a touchy business. There was a time when a kiss and a big hug was de rigour for a politician. Pressing the flesh is a vital part of a campaign. Politicians shake hands, they hug, and there...
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Hair Raising Ads
File these vintage advertisements under shampoo ads we are not likely to see any time soon department. For some seventies gals a head full of floral scented tresses may have made you deliciously nice...
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Notre Dame Cathedral Burns and Civilization Weeps
Centuries of history have disappeared before our disbelieving eyes. An unspeakable tragedy as we watch the past burn away. Like everyone who gathered around screens big and small to watch this...
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Passover Preparation
I just finished my Passover shopping at Fairway and I feel very Farklempt. Preparing for Passover brings up a multitude of feelings and like most daughters, the holiday is deeply tied in with my...
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Whitewashing the Civil War
Color history whitewashed. The revisionist history of the Civil War continues today as Trump tries to defend his vile Charlottesville remark by praising Robert E Lee, a slave owner who led the fight...
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Anti-Semitism Again
Again. Again another place of worship in America reverberates with the hateful sound of bullets. Again the ugliness of anti-Semitism that has been unleashed under Donald Trump has been given...
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Never Forget
Never Forget. Those words were seared into me as a child. As Jews gathered in N.Y.C. on Sunday for the annual Gathering of Remembrance at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, they came together as...
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Kate Smith’s America
It was the 1930’s. While a rotund and darn proud of it Kate Smith was belting out “God Bless America” causing a lump to form in our throats, and our antiseptic kitchens were tastefully adorned with...
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