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A Very Special Lady
We know very little about Elizabeth Monroe, wife of James, the 5th President of the United States, because James so bereft when she died, burned all of her letters. I always thought Dolly Madison was...
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GUNS
I wasn’t going to write about this, but it just won’t leave me be, ignited by the incident on the film, Rust, where a 42 year-old woman, a wife and mother, was killed in a careless, senseless accident...
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Did You Know…Pull at Your Heartstrings Edition
On the eve of Audrey Hepburn becoming a household name in 1953, her first film, Roman Holiday about to open, she appeared at the atelier of French designer Hubert de Givenchy hoping he’d dress her for...
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Kindness Hold Steady
My determination to stay kind, amidst all the bad behavior, is impressing even me. The patience one needs nowadays when the world seems to have their guns out, whether strapped to their thigh or loaded...
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Mysteries
Babies with iPhones shoved in their mouths like convenient pacifiers. Blue hair. Couples arguing in public. Couples dining out…table for 4. Our phones will be joining us. Plastic surgery that make...
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Did You Know…The FDR Edition
Winston Churchill said, meeting Franklin Roosevelt for the first time, was like opening your first bottle of champagne. He had a perennial twinkle in his eye, called the traitor to his class stepping...
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Can We Agree To Disagree?
I was asked my opinion of Ghislaine Maxwell, found guilty of 6 counts of federal sex trafficking. I paused knowing, the person asking was probably spoiling for a fight, and did I want to hop in the...
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Nothing Like A Good Story
When one of Winston Churchill’s many secretaries went into the hospital to have her appendix out, he said…. Oh, sorry to hear that. Can she still type? Cary Grant refused the role of Henry...
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Did You Know…The French Edition
The French Writer Collette, mostly known for her novel Gigi (1944), made into a film (1958) with Leslie Caron, ate cloves of garlic all day long, yet still had many friends, even though her breath...
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Did You Know…The Drunk’s Edition
When Betty Ford (1918-2011), wife of President Gerald Ford quit drinking in 1978, he, to lend support, stopped drinking too. Bravely going public, siring the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage,...
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Fighting For Their Rights
I’m sitting here so humbled, reading the latest news about what’s happening in the Ukraine, how a week ago, they were people at peace and now, frightened for their lives and their love ones. How one...
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Tight Genes
It’s funny how events collide, synchronicity at its best. My friend Lisa is reading a book about Caroline Kennedy by Christopher Anderson called Sweet Caroline (2003), probably the only bio on...
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If I Had Money
I’ve often thought, if I became rich, how would I be…what would I do generosity wise? Would I just write random checks to offset my new tax bracket, or step up to the plate giving wise? I then...
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Best Story of the Week…April 28
On my way to the Park in the morning, I pass a building with a very young doorman working the night shift. All of 19, tall and gangly with a full beard, reminding me just a little of a young Abraham...
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Did You Know…And Furthermore
Old Spice, the scent our fathers wore, was first launched on June 17, 1939 as Early American Old Spice, bought out by Proctor and Gamble in 1990, for 50 million dollars. I don’t know about you, but...
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Things Even I Didn’t Know
The word amateur comes from the Latin word amator meaning lover, the verb amare, to love. And here I thought being called one was a slur when in fact it’s doing something simply for love instead of...
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Memorial Day 2022
There’s a Vietnam vet in a wheelchair with a Pitbull named Zeke I often see. The guy is very handsome despite his careworn demeanor…blonde, blue-eyed, like an aging surfer sitting down. You can...
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More Stories…Some Sad, Some Not
When John Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash in July 1999 along with his wife and sister-in-law, his sister, Caroline wanted him buried with their parents at Arlington National Cemetery. When they...
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July Fourth, 2022
I’m a patriot down to my socks. Despite our present government kicking the Founders in their teeth wooden or otherwise every chance they get, one still basks in their eternal glory. Too flowery?...
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Rachel And Andrew Jackson…A Love Story.
At 17, Rachel Donelson of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, married a man named Lewis Robards in Nashville, Tennessee, not the ideal husband. Some say he disappeared, others she ran away making her...
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