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When COVID, Chaos, and Cognitive Decline Collide…Who Could Imagine That
I’ve always had a fertile imagination. For nearly six decades I’ve imagined my life unfolding in the form of a TV show always playing to an imaginary studio audience and their reactions. Its genesis...
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AOC – We Will Not Move On – Keep Speaking Up Survivors. It Matters.
Like AOC, I’ve been told to “Move On. To forget.” “Move on, forget about it.” I was told when I was 19 and viciously sexually assaulted on a warm summer night in the balsam-scented woods of suburban...
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Marjorie’s Same Old Song “Beware of World Jewery”
“I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true” -Marjorie Greene Taylor Oh, my little Margie! What a scatterbrain you are! Is your brain so porous that there is no filter allowing anything and...
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Rush Limbaugh Was Not Good For America
I’m in no rush to memorialize a bombastic, egotistical radio personality whose vulgar words and racist, misogynist, and homophobic sentiments helped create the divisive country we find ourselves in...
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When the GOP Was Really Grand
Once upon a time, and not that long ago, the Grand Old Party was actually pretty grand. And that kids, is not a fairy tale. Today when the Republican party is populated by turtles who morph into...
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Touched By An Angel
I never watched the popular television show Touched By an Angel. I never much believed in its premise of an angel passing along the messages from God to those needing help. Even if she did look like...
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Dr. Seuss and Asians – A Troubled Past Today
Care for a side of bigotry with that green eggs and ham? On Tuesday the beloved children’s book author Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday, it was announced by the Dr. Seuss Enterprises that 6 of his...
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Harry and Meghan the Split Heard Round The World
The divisiveness is palpable Families are feuding. Longtime Facebook friends are parting ways after bitter exchanges, angrily hitting the unfriend button in a self-satisfied rage. Tempers and moods...
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Artist’s Talk Deadlocked and Loaded:Disarming America
I am honored to be included in a really powerful show called “Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America.” It is a feminist POV on gun violence, curated by activist/curator Karen Gutfreund. Join me...
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Active Shooter…Only in America
This is an illness in our country more virulent than the coronavirus which is killing our citizens. The unregulated, fetishized gun culture, the very symbol to many as the essence of freedom. Oh, how...
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A Passover Tradition in an Nontraditional Time
Neither packing nor a pandemic can stop Pesach for me. The wine-stained,, dog-eared Maxwell House Haggadahs I have used for 60 years sit on my table like always, but things are not like always....
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Beverly Cleary, An Ageless Appeal
It was clear to anyone who knew me as a child that Beverly Cleary was my favorite author. Browsing the shelves of my local suburban library was an adored childhood activity in the 1960s. With my...
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Asian American Hate- It’s Up to US to Stop it
We can’t keep turning away. We can’t keep shutting the door to what we know is going on. Literally and figuratively. On Monday a Manhattan luxury building security guard was caught on a security...
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Driving While Black. Facing the Facts of Life Again
A killing. Again. Once more, another shooting of a Black man by the police. How many more times can I keep writing that. How many times can we keep saying that, reading that, living that? How many...
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A Daughter’s Homage to Her Mother
It feels unfathomable that it will be13 years on Sunday since my beloved mother Betty passed away. The same number of years it took to come of age and be Bat Mitzvah ( or Hebrew Recognition as my very...
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After George Floyd the Fight For Justice Continues
The image of disgraced former police officer Derek Chauvin’s hands cuffed behind his back is an indelible image. America did right yesterday. At least for George Floyd. Yesterday, in Minneapolis truth...
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Pesticides Belong- to the Fun of Living!
Mid-Century America was the golden age of pesticides and it was love at first sight. Any thoughts about Earth Day and the environment lay far in the future. Thousands of new chemicals were put to use...
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Hello From the Long Goodbye
Donald Trump may have abandoned the world of blogging but despite my recent absence, I have not. My attention has been shifted momentarily out of necessity because of my soon-to-be move to a new home...
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Why Bill Cosby’s Overturned Conviction is another Assault to Sexual Assault...
If only PTSD were as easy to overturn as a sexual assault conviction. If only Bill Cosby’s victims felt as free as he will now be. What do we tell those 60 plus victims of Bill Cosby, whose sexual...
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A Bastille Day Birthday Memory
For the past 20 years, July 14th meant only one thing in my family- my mother Betty’s Bastille Day birthday bash – a big family pool party at my house. Today she would have turned 95 and we would...
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