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Best Story of the Week…January 22nd
I stop at the corner of 88th and Third, pull my mask down to quickly blow my nose. A middle-aged woman in a snowsuit, is wielding a red wagon right towards me with a cat in it, wearing a ski sweater...
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The Presidential Peanut Gallery
I couldn’t help getting teary when I saw the art President Biden chose for the Oval Office. A President can hang artwork from the White House’s own collection, or borrow from museums for his term in...
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Did You Know…All Bets Are Off Edition
Abraham Lincoln stashed papers in his Stovepipe hat. Do you think Jack and Ike did too? Maybe that’s where Jack hid all those long-legged phone numbers. Marilyn Monroe lived in 20 different foster...
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Whine And Cheese
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves, wondered Robin Williams. If I’m the best man at a wedding, why is she marrying him? asked Jerry Seinfeld. I realize these were two jokes, but were they...
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Did You Know…Everything But The Kitchen Sink Edition
The Statue of Liberty has an 879 size foot, a 35 foot waist and a face 8 feet long. Now that’s what I call a big girl. French President, Charles de Gaulle was 6’5, an inch taller than Abraham...
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A Capitol Offense
I can’t say enough how disturbed I am that every American doesn’t see how the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, of this year, was a crime against our country…that it wasn’t just one of those...
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Did You Know…Bobby Kennedy Edition
I know RFK isn’t for everyone, but he’s iconic to me, truly believing he would have been elected President, and one of our greatest if he had had the chance. A friend of mine called him a spoiled,...
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Back To Normal
Why does normal feel so strange? On Monday my Library announced, as of Wednesday masks would be optional, and all the chairs in the reading room available again, the yellow tape that for a year has...
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Did You Know…Lincoln/Booth/Juneteenth Edition
So we now have a new National Holiday… Juneteenth. Do you think Hallmark was consulted? Why June 19th? Though Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation in January, 1865, some Texan slave...
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Post Pandemic Stress Syndrome
One would think life would be cheerier coming out of the Valley. Nope! Seems bitterness is winning the race against grace, bad behavior doing the hula. When a man pushed in front of me entering CVS,...
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All American Tales
After Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia of a cerebral hemorrhage, his cousin, Margaret “Daisy” Suckley who was there, took it upon herself to take Fala, FDR’s beloved...
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A Good Egg With A Few Cracks
This is my new description of myself since, despite all my good-doing, I still come up a little short. We can start with my annoyance at the homeless situation along with the entitled rich. It’s...
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John Kennedy Jr….An Irish Tragedy
John Every morning I walk through the Park, across the bridge, down the hill… and expect to see you. I expect to see you dashing from 1040 on roller blades, in your navy pinstriped suit, looking like...
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Did You Know…Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Edition
In honor of what would have been her 92nd birthday, I wish to share some of what I know. Often passing her 15th floor apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, never failing to think of the 35th First Lady of...
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Choosing What’s Good
I’ve been reading a Pete Hamill novel called Forever where there’s a section on Boss Tweed, the infamous leader of Manhattan’s Tammany Hall inspiring this post since, Pete writes more about the good...
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Brother, Can You Spare A Slice?
Between being accosted by Planned Parenthood screaming I was mean not stopping, and a fellow asking me to give to the United Negro Pizza Fund, funny the first three times I’ve heard it always forking...
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Did You Know…More Lore
Jack Ruby who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald, who killed John F. Kennedy, all died between 1963 and 1967 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, its oldest opening in 1894. Writer Truman...
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September 11, 2001…Such a Beautiful Mourning
It was a balmy 68 degrees in Central Park when I came back from my run to dress for the day. I had an important appointment to possibly be the new Clairol girl, that at 8 a.m. had no idea was not meant...
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Did You Know…September 11th, 2001 Edition
I feel this day like a war wound when it rains, Taps playing in my heart on a continuous loop. I’m told I shouldn’t keep it alive, it’s depressing, irony at its best since, 2,993 people died, 412 being...
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Susannah’s Fall, Winter Reading List…2021-2022
It’s been mostly the season of rereading, as though books chosen were never read before. Funny how that happens. One could either blame age or just the well-written word since, this is where the term...
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