Trump Knew
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the USA. The health of our nation and its citizens are close to being on life support after four years of him as president. Now in his own voice, we have...
View ArticleBefore The World Trade Center There was N.Y.C.’s Radio Row
News of the 9/11 tragedy found its way to me through the antiquated airwaves of a vintage Bakelite radio. Only days before September 11, 2001, I had moved from the New York City I loved to one of its...
View ArticleComrade Joe and Socialist Sally
To believe Trump you’d a thunk the democrats nominated Fidel Castro! Since “ Socialist” Joe Biden is just one step away from morphing into the Cuban dictator – that is according to my die-hard Trump...
View ArticleHow To Best Honor the Notorious RBG
I awoke this morning with such a heavy heart as one does after a loved one dies and the world seems changed forever. We are all heartbroken. It’s easy to get lost in the darkness but the greatest...
View ArticleThe Mid-Century World Ruth Bader Ginsburg Defied
The world was never the same because of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A shy, petite, Jewish girl from Brooklyn changed my life forever. Her impact was as profound as another self-effacing, compassionate,...
View ArticleWill Operation June Cleaver Be Deployed in 2020
Get ready to set your clocks back, kids. No, it’s not daylight savings time yet, but it’s about to get darker a lot earlier than many of us hoped for. A woman whose religious beliefs require her to...
View ArticleFor This Jewish Woman, Past Has Become Present and No One Should Be Proud
Last night the President of the United State of America refused to condemn white supremacy, enabling and ennobling them. On national TV. The same America whose story of the triumph of good over evil...
View ArticleMacho Man Not Mucho Macho
Image from “Not Normal Art In the Age of Trump” by Karen M Gutfruend. Art: Michele Castagnetti, Donnie Rambo, 2020, Digital composition The myth Trump wants to perpetuate – the warrior leader as a...
View ArticleKamala Will Pummel Pence
Mike Pence is going to need plenty o’ Jesus Bandages after Kamala pummels him tonight in the debates! Kamala is ready for action! Is it possible it’s only been a week since the first presidential...
View ArticleFlies- The Fear Factor
“Listen…..Do you hear it?” “Bzzzzzzz……It’s coming back……a buzzing creeping crawling nightmare of terror…..the return of the fly” That may have been the opening trailer in the 1959 Vincent Price movie...
View ArticleHappy 80th Birthday John Lennon
My childhood vintage Globe Transistor Radio and John Lennon doll I could never have imagined when I got this John Lennon doll in 1964 and listened to the Beatle’s “Can’t Buy Me Love” on this globe...
View ArticleDon’t Judge Me Because I Can’t Play the Piano
They laughed when I sat down at the Senate Hearing but when I started to Play the Piano….. I never had piano lessons. Can’t tickle the ivories at all. Which now might very well disqualify me from...
View ArticleWe the People Did It
We the People did it. We the People pulled America away from the edge of the precipice it was teetering on. We the People saved the American Dream for another generation We saved democracy by acting...
View ArticleAmericans Celebrating Victory WWII and 2020
The waiting had been agonizing. Rumors and intimations both good and bad were rampant. The anxieties and melodrama made biding our time excruciating. Would we be victorious and vanquish an evil...
View ArticleRemembering JFK and My Weekly Reader
“My Weekly Reader” Special Memorial Section for President John Kennedy December 1963 While others relied on Walter Cronkite for their news of the Kennedy Assassination, My Weekly Reader was the...
View ArticleA Return to New York City
I recently wandered the streets of Manhattan. Though a seemingly unremarkable activity for someone who has done just that for over 50 years, in the time of the coronavirus it took on new significance....
View ArticleA Comic Course on the Electoral College
The much-maligned Electoral College has finally scored some points. Boola Boola! Despite #BidenWillNeverBePresident trending on Twitter yesterday, all 538 electors voted decisively confirming Joe...
View ArticleAt Long Last, A Happy New Year
For the first time in four years, I feel not only a glimmer of hope for the coming new year but the beginning of healing. Hallelujah! In 2021 the adults are coming to help us heal. To restore,...
View ArticleThank You Stacey Abrams
This glorious Goddess deserves our undying gratitude!!! What she did is short of miraculous- she galvanized and restored faith and power to those who have been historically suppressed and kept without...
View ArticleThe Best Impeachment
Finally, Donald Trump has true bragging rights. “No one has more Impeachments than I do !” This extremely stable genius has done what no other American president has ever done. Been impeached twice....
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