A Flood of Memories
To be filed under a flood of memories The past few weeks I have felt as though underwater with the massive task of unpacking hundreds of boxes in my new home, and repacking the remains of my old...
View ArticleGet The Damn Vaccine Already!
In my home Dr Fauci is so revered, a shrine was constructed as a constant reminder to be vigilant when it comes to COVID particularly the new Delta variant. Free donuts didn’t do it. A complimentary...
View ArticleRemembering Real Space Champions
Jeff Bezo’s penisrocketing into the great blue yonder left me frankly unsatisfied. I’m old enough to remember real space heroes, not self-indulgent corporate billionaires looking for a mid-life...
View ArticleTruth, Justice and the Trump Way
It was never about the truth. It was never about justice. But it was all about Donald Trump’s agenda. And that is the truth. As long suspected, we now know that the Trump administration had no...
View ArticleWho are the Real Crisis Actors in Our Democracy?
The only crisis actors during the Capitol insurrection were the domestic terrorists posing as patriots. The unthinkable crisis they created in our democracy was all too real. Worst Performance Fox...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo’s Fast Fall From Grace
Guess it’s time to toss the Cuomosexual T-shirt in the trash. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo once the toast of a pandemic-riddled town is now himself toast. President Biden has...
View ArticleThe Toxic Workplace and the Entitled Male. Getting Personal with the...
There was a time when sexism and sexual harassment in the workplace were laughed off, dismissed as good-natured fun. “Boys will be boys,” said with a shrug of the shoulders. “It’s just who they are,”...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo – Goofus or Gallant?
Andrew Cuomo’s resignation seems to have deeply divided camps when it comes to an elected official’s accountably and consequences. With my own mixed feelings about his stepping down, one thing is...
View ArticleThe Deadly Reality of Denial
Our country feels like it is burning out of control. Aflame with inflammatory rhetoric there are those strongly questioning the usefulness of masks and vaccines during a dangerous pandemic, while...
View ArticleChaos. Desperation. Lies. Again
It was pure chaos. Swarming crowds. The frantic scrambling of bodies. Flailing arms and legs intertwined and indistinguishable from one another as they morphed into one large mass of human desperation...
View ArticlePersonal Sacrifice for the Greater Good is the American Way
If a segment of nobody-tells-me-what-to-do-keep-the-government-off-my-back American’s still whinge at the thought of a mask mandate while shedding crocodile tears about the discomfort, inconvenience,...
View ArticleAbortions Back to the Past Heartbeats and Heartache
Nearly a decade to the day from when Roe v Wade was passed, I had an abortion. If I lived in Dallas today, it never would have happened. It was a blustery day in late January 1983 and the N.Y.C....
View Article9/11 Twenty Years Ago
September 10, 2001. It was 20 years ago …the day before the world changed forever; and one in which my own world went through a life-altering change of its own. I had just moved into a newly built...
View ArticleMemories Not For Sale
Bit by bit, pieces of my life have been going off to live in new homes as I sell off some of my belongings that I can no longer keep. Yesterday I said goodbye to my antique dining room chairs that...
View ArticleMum’s the Word When it Comes to Fall
I hate Mums. There, I’ve said it. Yet I just returned from the local nursery loaded down with a dozen or so pots of this despised plant. As summer annual flowers begin to fade, the vacancy in my terra...
View ArticleLab Love x Two
The other evening I had an experience worthy of an O’ Henry story and my heart is just about bursting with joy. As many of you know I’ve been in the difficult process of letting go and selling many of...
View ArticleAbortion Rights – 4 Decades of Women Marching
Step on women’s rights and they start marching. If you stomp on justice they will take to the streets. They march against misogynist presidents and protest economic inequality. And over and over again...
View ArticleA Fractured State of Our Union
Collage by Sally Edelstein ” Fractured State of the Union” hand-cut collage of appropriated vintage images 20″ x 24″ After the calamitous events of 2020 can we piece the country back together even as...
View ArticleMs. Magazine and Me
You can call me Ms. Edelstein, from now on! Ms. Magazine, that grande dame of feminist publications started by that grande dame of feminists Ms. Gloria Steinem, just did a profile on me. For a long...
View ArticleSuperman Gets Woke
Cancel Me This Batman! Superman, that all-American immigrant from a far distant planet is changing his famous motto. Truth, Justice and the American Way long the superhero’s rallying cry since WWII,...
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