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Beat the Summer Heat Automatically
How to beat the summer heat- automatically. Vintage ad Vendo Vending machines 1958 Hydrate, hydrate, and re-hydrate. That is the mantra for this summer’s scorching heat. During this oppressive heat...
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The Choices Are Clear
He chose not to act. Despite what he saw… Despite what he knew…. He didn’t care. Advisors’ pleas to call for peace were ignored. He cared only about the Big Lie. He cared only about himself. As...
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Gee Wally, Was There Really A Cold War?
Mayfield is in mourning. Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s gentle, big brother was reported to have died this past Tuesday. No prank of Eddie Haskell, the fact was Wally remained in hospice close to death. Now...
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How to Beat The Summer Heat
Unbearable summer heat is nothing new though each year we seem to think we’ve never had it this bad. While many are googling tips on how to survive this wretched heat wave, I turned to my trusty 1954...
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Story Of my Two Stanleys
I don’t believe in coincidences. Everything about my dog Stanley has been serendipitous Thirteen years ago today, my heart was shattered by the untimely death of my sweet dog Emerson. But on that very...
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Do Bee a Bee Lover
Bees once terrified me. As a child the mere sight and sound of one of these stinging creatures petrified me, sending me racing inside to the safety of my suburban house as though I had seen a Soviet...
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Greetings from Kansas
When Kansas speaks, we need to listen. The heart of the country spoke out from their heart last night with a resounding vote to protect abortion access by rejecting an amendment that would remove the...
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Still Obsessed With Marilyn Monroe
60 years ago today Americans were waking up to the tragic news that Marilyn Monroe had died. It was a hot, muggy, Sunday afternoon as I lolled about like a Hollywood starlet in a kidney-shaped pool...
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Opioids- Trick or Treat?
Hey, big pharma ( I’m talking to you Sackler family) quit colluding with my insurance company. In a broken medical system, here’s just one small element. Cigna, my insurance company seems to be happy...
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Women’s Equality Day
Detail “A Storms Approachin'”collage by Sally Edelstein Though often unacknowledged, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. More than 40 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene...
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I’m Not Falling For Faux Fall
I’m not ready for sweater weather! And I’m not putting away my white shoes any time soon. With Labor Day looming, my longing for a never-ending summer grows fiercer, becoming protective of the...
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From GI Joe to Joe College- How The GI Bill Changed College Forever
A four-year college education was not always a right of passage upon graduating High School. Once upon a time college along with home ownership was a privilege reserved for the rich. It took a war to...
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Donald Trump’s Huge Hot Mess
“The FBI tried to make it look like I’m a slob” Donald Trump There is a dangerous conspiracy a foot according to Fox News. Neat freaks and those who suffer from OCD be forewarned- the FBI is coming to...
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Motivating the American Worker
On Labor Day, that holiday federalized by Uncle Sam in 1894, we honor the achievements of America’s hard-working people. There was a time when loyal workers truly rooted for the firm. Our...
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American Dream Unveiled
The American Dream is dead. No if, and, or butts about it. If American democracy is slowly dying, the American Dream has officially jumped the shark. And its demise was as clear as black and white...
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Farewell, Queen Elizabeth
There is a heaviness in my heart and sadness I am feeling about the loss of Queen Elizabeth that is almost startling. It feels inconceivable that she is truly gone. Perhaps it’s the abruptness. Just...
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A Summer Book Ended by Queen Elizabeth
As many may know I love paper. I still need to hold history in my hands. An avid collector of ephemera, along with hundreds of boxes filled with a century’s worth of vintage magazines I also collect...
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Remembering Windows On The World
Windows on The World New York Magazine May 1976 Twenty-one years. On this year’s observance of the attack on the World Trade Center, that number and that place have been intertwined in my life long...
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Open Art Studio Tour
For those in the New York area who would like to view my hand-cut collages, as well as a behind the scenes, look into my process and a peak into my large collection of vintage ephemera that informs...
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Trump the Magnificent Stable Genius
The Amazing Trump once again revealed his superior mental powers to the world in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox. With his all-powerful brain, he can telepathically declassify top secret...
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