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What Got My Attention
In French “bibliotheque de coeur’ means “library of the heart”- a quiet collection of books we carry within us, long after we’ve turned the last page. Pope Leo’s mother was a Librarian. The...
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A Tuesday Mourning…September 11th, 2001 Remembered
For most people it’s just a blur, like an old film or story you’ve been told. But for me and those who were here it’s become part of us. How could it not? I can only compare it to hearing your...
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A Quiet City
Labor Day You assume it’s the last day of the season, why it’s so still, but deep down know it’s more than that. The city itself remembers what week it is. Twenty-five years ago it was unmercifully...
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And I Quote…
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair…Shirley Chisholm Authors we read are our mentors…Natalie Goldberg A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something...
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What I Think
That parents should be REQUIRED to give their kids books before cell phones. When I’m frequently asked what I think of our President answer in two words…he’s unkind, a dealbreaker when it comes to...
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What Got My Attention
In 1815, Thomas Jefferson in extreme debt, sold his personal library of 6, 487 books for $23, 950 siring The Library of Congress, now the largest Library in the world with more than 25 million books....
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From Books I’ve Read
Whenever one of Winston Churchill’s secretaries came back from walking his dog Rufus, he’d ask, “So, did the little dog do his duty?” I thought that was pretty funny coming from a Prime Minister....
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Write Or Wrong
I’ve been writing down everything I feel. It’s amazing how quickly one can fill a notebook. My emotions remind me of an eclectic catered lunch on a movie set. I have many to choose from: Grief, the...
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How bout I Throw the Book At You
I’m in Target, my home away from home, looking at their new books many with 30% 0ff. I’m perusing Jill Biden’s new memoir, View From The East Wing, that’s one of them. A middle-aged man in a...
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Oval and Out: U.S. Presidents
Richard Nixon in 1971 while president, pardoned Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamster’s Union after five years into serving a thirteen year prison sentence for jury tampering, mail fraud and bribery....
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Memorial Day 2026
I wrote this in 2016. Ten years later to quote Abraham Lincoln, we need to bind up the nation’s wounds. Though she’s limping still with her head held high, I’m confident will prevail, or all the...
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Historically Speaking
Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time…Mary Soames, the youngest of Winston Churchill’s five children on her father’s relationship with Franklin Roosevelt....
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Did You Know…Quirky Facts
The singer Bobby Darrin dying at 37 after open-heart surgery suffering from a heart condition his whole life, left his body to science. On D-Day, June 6, 1945, facing Omaha Beach, soldiers used...
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Did You Know…The Mob Edition
In the opening scene of The Godfather, when Vito Corleone coddles a kitten on his lap, it wasn’t in the script. The animal just wandered in, Brando one can say, making her a star. When Sonny...
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Susannah’s Spring, Summer Reading List…2026
I was told I read too much. Rather than get offended took it as a compliment. What a wonderful thing to be accused of. It seemed to annoy this person that every time we meet I bring a book. It’s...
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Walking Down Fifth
Fifth Avenue can be cold with snapping winds, but not today, good news since I so love to stroll, the true flaneur that I am. It’s French for idle saunterer…one who walks unhurried. Yes,...
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What Got My Attention
Four quotes; two singers, two writers, one baseball player. When you hit a wall, just kick it in…Patti Smith You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served…Nina Simone...
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When You Want To Smack Mother Nature
It feels as if I’m trapped in a snow globe, or under house arrest since the city is paralyzed. I keep staring out the window looking for a sign of life that’s as still as a Currier and Ives...
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Long May She Wave
I rarely attend rallies never feeling safe enough, but made an exception to be there when they re-raised the Pride Flag at the Stonewall Memorial that the President ordered taken down. It was quite...
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Life On The Train
Downtown Number 6 10:30 a.m. Cold be damned. I need to go to the 42nd Street Library to get a special gift. This is when I wish my incessant thoughtfulness would take a hike. But we are who we...
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