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RIP RFK The Day Hope Died
Kennedy Campaign Worker in tears 1968 Robert F. Kennedy represented hope. But on June 6, 1968, a nation was left once more to watch and grieve and wonder after another senseless act of violence robbed...
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Absurdity- No One Is Safe
We are living in absurd times. Thinking the unthinkable is no longer unthinkable. It is reality. No one is immune. No one is safe When the world goes mad, the arts go Dada. The Art Center Highland...
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Florida Man Indicted
While many Americans are gleefully popping champagne, you know the Heinz ketchup is flowing at Bedminster. Looks like Jack Smith has finally got Trump boxed in. Lock, who up?
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Make America Just Again
A Chyron that will live in infamy Trump finally has real bragging rights. So many firsts! In his bloated ego, where bigger is always better the disgraced former president can proudly claim: No American...
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Dancing Around Father’s Day
A Wedding dance with my father on June 11, 1989 If I am a pro at waltzing through complex relationships, I learned that life skill from my most primal relationship – my father. Like me, the man himself...
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Book-ended By the Absurdity of Trump
Bookended By Trump It feels implausible, but once again Donald Trump and his delusional thinking are dominating the news and national discourse as I prepare for my second art show at The Art Center...
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A Pack Rat Pushes Back At Trump
Battle of the Boxes- The Hoarder vs the Collector Yet one more reason to despise Donald Trump. He is giving pack rats like me a bad name. The former hoarder-in-chief’s attachment to paper is a very...
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A Sally Edelstein Collage
Hot off the press! For those who know and love my alter ego Pierre, a French artist created by me at 3 years old, he makes a rare video appearance in this short video called “A Sally Edelstein...
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America Goes Back In Time
America is so fearful of being woke, that our country is not just going back in time, we are going back to sleep. And for way too many it is a nightmare. Sherman and Mr. Peabody and the Wayback...
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On this July Fourth, We Are All Highland Park
American traditions are being shattered along with our rights Once upon a time the booming sound of firecrackers exploding brought up mid-century childhood memories of July 4th parades. The charge of...
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The Right Is Gunning For America
The right has targeted OUR fundamental rights. Let’s honor our founders by reclaiming them. Honor July 4th.
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How The Near Death Of My Dog Inspires
In an alternative universe, I would be saying kaddish (the ancient mourner’s prayer Jews recited after the loss of a loved one) for my bestest friend Stanley my beautiful Labrador retriever. And a...
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The Spirit Of Bastille Day
Pierre 1960 Self-portraits As many of you know when I was a little girl I was a little boy. From the tender age of three until about seven, I was known in my family as “Pierre the Artist” who lived in...
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Before There Was Barbenheimer
“This Years Girl” by Sally Edelstein Doubleday 1985 Double Page Barbenheimer When it comes to Barbenheimer this girl was way ahead of the curve by almost 40 years. As the anticipation of the release of...
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Kennedy and Anti-Semitism Nothing New Here.
Joseph Kennedy’s dark legacy of antisemitism lives on with RFK Jr his grandson Yet again the media is awash with more stories of Robert Kennedy Jr’s far-fetched antisemitic rants that seem to appear...
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Who the Hell Wants a Great Society?
Marjorie Taylor Greenes’s rogue gallery of socialists LBJ, Karl Marx, FDR, Joe Biden Who the hell wants a great society? Marjorie Taylor Greene sure doesn’t and she’s dead set on making sure you...
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How A White Supremacist Integrated the U.S. Military
Harry Truman hoped to finally put racism to rest, Tommy Tuberville would like the South to rise again. If Alabama’s Senator Tommy Tuberville had his way, today’s army would have you trading in your...
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Barbie and the Bomb
While other girls my age coveted a Barbie Dream House in 1962, I longed for a home fallout shelter. It was the great disappointment of my mid-century childhood that my New York family never had one....
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Slaves With Benefits
The Tortured Truth about Slavery. Slavery was routinely sanitized for children, including in my own childhood. As much as we whitewashed over the brutality of slavery as evidenced by this (L) happy...
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Brand X
Is rebranding Twitter as X a marketing mistake or might it be very intentional? Is Musk marketing his brand X to his target audience the anti-woke, anti-cancel culture, stars and bars crowd? On the...
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