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John Kennedy Jr…What Might Have Been
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. on this day, will be gone 23 years. Hard to believe. Most of us remember where we were when we heard the news his plane was missing, the same as when his dad was shot...
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How Did This Happen?
As of late, there’s a teenage boy sitting at the entrance of the 86th Street subway on the downtown side. He doesn’t ask for anything, even in this oppressive heat. There’s no verbal hustle...
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Susannah’s Fall, Winter Reading List…2022-2023
Read for pleasure. Read to enlarge your lives. Read history, read biography, learn from the lives of others. David McCullough, The American Spirit…2017 I thought it apt to begin with a quote from...
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A Day Like No Other…September 11, 2001
We as humans get over everything, designed to endure, unless of course you lost a loved one on the morning of September 11, 2001. For the most part New Yorkers have moved on from that hellish day,...
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Did You Know…The Mixed Bag Edition
In France, graffiti artists of the Keith Haring school of defacing public property, are called taggers, quite a cool name for criminals, don’t you think? Speaking of Keith, dying in 1990 of AIDS...
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Did You Know…Always More
Though the Bible doesn’t name them and it could have been the Spiegel Catalog, somewhere along the line the three wise men bringing gifts to Jesus were coined Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar. Now...
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Did You Know…So Many Facts…So Little Time Edition
When Ruth Bader Ginsberg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in 2020, after Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell refused her the honor of lying-in-state in the...
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Did You Know…The Poignant And Then Some Edition
The reason Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s face has been featured on the dime since 1946, is because as a Polio victim in 1938, created The National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis better known as...
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Bobby Kennedy…Remembered
In 1968, when Senator Robert Kennedy was driving through Westchester, New York, he stopped at the new Grasslands Hospital for disturbed and mentally retarded children. As soon as he walked into...
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Quotes Worth Quoting
Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing. Norman Mailer A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. Murray Kempton...
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Churchill, Bourdain, and Jackie.
Jacqueline Kennedy on November 25, 1963, made the decision to walk behind her husband’s casket from the U.S. Capitol’s rotunda after lying in state for two days, to Saint Matthew’s Cathedral where...
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Did You Know…Naughty And Nice Edition
A few months before JFK’s assassination, a reporter told his brother Bobby who was also his Attorney General, that they wouldn’t be able to conceal Jack’s flagrant philandering much longer; it was...
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Did You Know…The People Verses Athingirl
I was prattling with Dale Rogerson over my love of history, how sadly many people aren’t interested in it, which brought up the subject of reading becoming a lost art. How social media has taken...
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Getting To Know Lincoln
He was 6’4″ and had a size 14 foot. His favorite color was blue. He loved oysters, biscuits and apple pie, coffee his favorite beverage. Some say he was homely yet attracted women, I’m betting...
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About The Spare…Not The Heir
I’m speaking of Prince Harry’s memoir SPARE, that’s causing so much royal tado; how much what he wrote upset his father and step-mother with its candor; but isn’t that what a memoir is all about? If...
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Susannah’s Spring, Summer Reading List…2023
It’s no secret I love to read, becoming as vital as air and water. And I’ve gotten very brazen in my various genres after claiming to only read non-fiction. Who was I kidding along with cheating...
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Did You Know…Everything Plus The Kitchen Sink Edition
A cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education, said Mark Twain. Theodore Roosevelt was the last U.S. President (26th) to write his own speeches. In the 1770s, Minutemen, in...
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The Quintessential Writer
I had mentioned that Theodore Roosevelt was the last American President to write his own speeches. The writer, Mark Paxson in a comment said...it would be far better if they spoke to us in their...
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Did You Know…47th Edition
Dying in 1872 at 63 from heart disease, seven years after the American Civil War ended, the beloved southern Commander of the Confederate State’s Army, Robert E. Lee’s last words were… strike the...
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They Soldiered On…Memorial Day 2023
Reading as much American History as I do, know how important Memorial day is I think of as, the Military’s Good Friday; The Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, WWI, WWII, The Korean War,...
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