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Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.
In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty...
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Platner Must Exit
We need a change STAT! The Democrats are on life support, and all they can offer up is a guy with a Nazi tattoo and a string of sexual abuse accusations. C’mon, Man! We need a reboot. We need a woman!...
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My Mother’s Love Grew in My Garden. It Still Does
A few weeks ago was my mother Betty’s yartzeit. 18 years. My mother has now been gone the length of my entire childhood. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. A lifetime,...
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Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?
Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly...
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A Mothers Day for All
Mother’s Day is a complicated day for so many of us. For those like me who no longer have a living mother yet live with their spirit and love every day it can be a difficult day of longing, deeply...
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Rape Academy- Old School
This vintage security poster from Syracuse University in 1973 (L) was ironically directed at protecting your valuables like your stereo more than female student safety. (R) Sally Edelstein Syracuse...
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How I Found Something Cheerful As I Mourned My Mother
I just struck ephemera gold! On the afternoon of my mother Betty’s yahrzeit, a day spent reflecting on the fact that her passing now spanned the entirety of my childhood, I learned something about...
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Grief Has No Time Frame
Today, my mother has been gone the length of my entire childhood. 18 years. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. An entire lifetime, in fact. Yet now 18 years seems to...
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Swalwell Accuser Speaks, And America Must Listen
Breaking the silence is never easy. Revealing shameful long-held secrets in public is even harder. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Lonna Drewes described how Congressman...
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A Caretaker’s Recounting of a Mother’s Last Week
Because my mother died the night before Passover, that first seder at my home a day later felt unbearable. I was shell-shocked from both her loss and from the months of intense caregiving. The...
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Melania- I Really Don’t Believe Her, Do You?
Yesterday, Melania Trump, a former low-level model, sashayed up to the White House podium as if she were walking the runway at a Paris fashion show. She stood there with her freshly blonde highlights,...
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My Mother’s Mid Century Pregnancy- A Weigh We Go
Pregnant women in mid-century America were not spared from the war on women’s bodies and weight control that began shortly after WWII. The constant bombardment of rules and expectations has only...
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What to Expect When Your Mid-Century Mother’s Expecting
Note: In celebration of my birthday week, I am taking a wee baby step away from the onslaught of chaotic news. This week, it’s a birthday bonanza of mid-century pregnancy, birth, and babies. What to...
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Noem In the Doghouse
Around 2:30 today, the pack of dogs in Moe’s park that were huddled together suddenly seemed especially frisky. Almost spontaneously, canines of all shapes and sizes let out a barking chorus of yips...
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History on Display-The Politics Behind the Department of Education Banners
With each new banner unfurling on buildings in Washington D.C. there are lessons to be learned. The latest display at the Department of Education makes clear the Trump curriculum. A few weeks ago, a...
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Voices Against Silence: Epstein Survivors Speak Out
The deafening roar of military fighter jets were no match for the powerful voices of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors speaking out at the Capitol on Wednesday. The President of the United States deployed...
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Remembering Sisters on National Sisters Day
My mother had two sisters, but grew up with only one. An annual tradition for me as a child was visiting my mother’s family cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens. This cemetery,y where my great grandparents...
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Ghislaine Maxwell is No Victim
G Virginia Giuffre: “I was instructed to get undressed and have sex with Jeffrey Epstein while Ghislaine Maxwell was participating as well. Both of them. I was abused by Ghislaine and Epstein.” While...
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‘Where the Boys Are’: Connie Francis Classic Revised
With the death of Connie Francis, her signature song “Where the Boys Are” keeps playing through my head. For some reason, that song takes up a lot of real estate in my already cluttered mind. With 60...
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Liberace: The Closeted Dream Boy of 1950s America
In Your Dreams Next to Rock Hudson, Liberace was Sue Ellen Wolinski’s absolute dream date. Liberace was just so fabulously different from any other fellows she had ever met. A wonderful pianist, yes....
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