Gettysburg Revisited
You don’t have to tour a battlefield to understand the Civil War. Look at today’s headlines. We’re still fighting the same issues that fueled the Civil War. The author and her brother at Gettysburg...
View ArticleVisiting the New York World’s Fair With the Flintstones
The Flintstones at the New York Worlds Fair 1965 Official Souvenir copyrighted 1964 Hanna-Barbera Sixty years ago today The New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 opened. If the New York Worlds Fair of...
View ArticleVisiting The N.Y. World’s Fair 1964/65 With the Flintstones PTII
Vintage Comic Book “The Flintstones at the New York Worlds Fair” 1965 Official Souvenir copyrighted 1964 Hanna -Barbera The New York World’s Fair in 1964/1965 attracted a boatload of luminaries, but...
View ArticleHappiness is A Warm Puppy. Not Killing One
Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Not Killing One. Moe ‘Kingfish’ Katz with a nod to Charles Schulz When I returned home after five days away at the New Bedford Film Festival it was into the loving paws of...
View ArticleKill the Jews
Between puppy killers and calls to exterminate the Jews, my head is exploding. A despicable anti-Israeli protestor at George Washington University carried a sign calling for “ the Final Solution” the...
View ArticleI Found Out I Can Do Something
Last Sunday, the shy little girl who was too scared to raise her hand in class and use her voice, the young woman so hampered by shame for decades that she kept silent, won the award for best...
View ArticleHow To Treat A Dog, Kristi!
Hey Kristi, this is how you treat a dog! You shower your dog with kisses, not with bullets!
View ArticleHow the 1970 Shooting at Kent State Forever Changed Me
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard was sent to break up an anti-war protest at Kent State University. It ended in 4 dead wounding 9 others. (Photo by John Filo) The sight of armed officers on...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day- More Important than Ever
To those deniers of the Holocaust: There is no denying that these members of my husband Hershel’s family lives were taken too early. My husband’s family in Poland before the Holocaust There is no...
View ArticleWho’s Your daddy?
“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter perhaps I’d be dating her.” What daddy wants Daddy gets And daddy wants Old Spice Men who score, use Old Spice. And whatever daddy wants, daddy gets. And Daddy Donald...
View ArticleThe Many Loves of Donald Trump
First Donald swooned over Kim Jung Un. He said he was in love. Then he was hubba hubba over Hungary’s Viktor Orban and his iron fist. And we all know Trump gets weak at the knees at the mere mention...
View ArticleMother’s Day With Moe
Thank you Moe for allowing me to be a mother again as we celebrated this first Mother’s Day together. A perfect ending to my first Mother’s Day with my dog Moe brought Stanley back into the day. In a...
View ArticleDonald Trump and The Syncophants
File this under With a Little Help From His Friends: With their heart-melting vocal harmonies and modeling matching outfits, Donald Trump’s backup boy band “The Sycophants” performed an impromptu...
View ArticleWake Up and Smell The Coffee Rudy
Rudy’s Coffee is grounds zero for good taste Mmmmm, I love the smell of grift in the morning! What red-blooded America wouldn’t want to start their day with a piping hot mug of Rudy Coffee to sip while...
View ArticleA Bronx Cheer For Trump
Liar, Liar, Diaper on Fire! Like his ego, Trump inflated the crowd at his Bronx rally. Contrary to his claim a zoomed-out view of the Bronx event showed a much smaller crowd in attendance. His...
View ArticleWhose Flag Is It?
The world feels upside down. Right is wrong. Up is down. Including the American flag at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home. The inverted flag a symbol of the “Stop the Steal Movement” flew over...
View ArticleTrump Guilty
“I fought the law and the law won!” Last night we witnessed the rule of law work. There was nothing sad about it. Democracy worked before our eyes. A privileged, white man with unlimited resources...
View ArticleD Day A Country United 80 Years Ago
It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty...
View ArticleD Day A Country United 80 Years Ago
It was June 1944. It was wartime. While my father Marvin was spit-polishing his regulation army boots in the jungles of New Guinea, on the other side of the globe my teenage bobby soxer mother Betty...
View ArticleWho Knew Adopting A Dog Would Feel Like Online Dating?
Who knew finding a dog could be as tough as online dating? Finding my furbaby Moe was a fraught process with age becoming a liability. I share my story of how I cleared all the many hoops in my...
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