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Did You Know…Naughty And Nice Edition Part 2
During the 1940s, looking down a woman’s cleavage was referred to as, peering down Pennsylvania Avenue. Whenever the legendary comedienne George Burns stepped out with another woman, his wife,...
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Juneteenth 2023
Juneteenth, now an annual American holiday, commemorates the 19th of June, 1865 when Texas, the last state of the Southern Confederacy, finally released their slaves. Most Americans I’m betting...
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Did You Know…Americana Edition
Harvard College, presently Harvard University, founded in 1636 known as the School of the Prophets, was attended by 8 U.S. Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore...
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Is It The 4th Of July Already?
Summer seems to be rushing by like it’s late for a train. What happened to spring? Did I miss it? My beloved city is empty, the rich fleeing like rats with suitcases. Tourists take their...
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Hey, Hey LBJ: How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?
My title was a chant Lyndon Johnson was chided with during his presidency. It was in an email I received this morning. A fellow I know is in the midst of reading a book on Vietnam and has decided...
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John Kennedy Jr….What Might have Been
It’s 24 years today since John Kennedy Jr. left us; almost hard to believe. It’s harder to believe that he was only 39. Like his Uncle Ted said in his poignant eulogy…but like his father, he had...
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Did You Know…More…And I Quote
Grover Cleveland was the only U.S. President to serve two nonconsecutive terms. If Donald Trump gets reelected in 2024, he will be the second. Rudyard Kipling author of the iconic poem If,...
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Non-Politically Speaking
I am not political. I don’t read the news nor am glued to CNN. I’d much rather read about Lincoln and his cabinet than Biden and his. Not that I have anything against Joe. I think considering what...
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Did You Know…Few More Things
The writer Pete Hamill (1935-2020) was the eldest of nine kids growing up in Brooklyn. His mother, Anne Devlin who loved Manhattan, told him as a young boy as they walked across the Brooklyn...
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Robert Kennedy Jr….As I See Him
I’ve been thinking a lot about Robert F. Kennedy’s second son, feeling the need to pay homage even if it’s not altogether complimentary. I had said in an earlier post, that as a presidential...
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September 11, 200I…I Can Still Hear The Bagpipers
Twenty-two years ago I lived around the corner from Campbell’s Funeral Parlor, the Taj Mahal of funeral homes. I got used to the sound of bagpipers mewling in memory of the firefighters and...
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Did You Know…An American Edition
Between 1941 and 1991 the comedienne Bob Hope (1903-2003) made 57 USO tours (United States Organization) entertaining the troops during WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf...
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Showdown At The Mailbox
As I’m mailing a letter see a woman I loathe coming towards me, like a hawk stalking its prey. She’s rich, obnoxious and an avid Trump follower. One learns in New York to stay clear of three...
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Hope Missing In Action
While the world is at such unrest, I’m finding it hard to feel hopeful about anything. So unlike me. Even my writing life seems flat murmuring, what’s the use…no one cares. Again, so unlike me....
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Life On The Train
As my melancholy continued, I looked to an old friend for solace. What I love about BB is, she’s always home. I took the local not being in any hurry, settling in a seat by the door so not to...
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Did You Know…Well I’ll Be Damned Edition
The actress Ingrid Bergman (August 29), feminist Betty Friedan (February 4), singer Merle Haggard (April 6), bad boy Machine Gun Kelly (July 18th), and our favorite bard, William Shakespeare...
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Life On The Train
I’m once again on the number 6 about to embark downtown. The car is filled with an air of nervousness. I attribute this to the half dozen policemen patrolling the platform. Since the war broke out,...
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Veterans Day…2023
I have a special place in my heart for all soldiers starting with my dad who served during World War II. I never understood his remoteness and reluctance to talk about those four long years away...
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Did You Know…Boys Will Be Boys Edition
During the 1992 scandal when Woody Allen left his girlfriend, Mia Farrow for her 21 year-old daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, 35 years his junior, Frank Sinatra, Mia’s ex-husband, offered to have...
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Did You Know…How They Loved Their Pets Edition
U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson loved his Beagle so much, he gave him his own initials, naming him… Little Beagle Johnson. Elizabeth Taylor never traveled without, Sugar, her Maltese...
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