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Bill Hicks…A Man Of The Hour
Today is Bill’s 62nd birthday. I wonder how he’s celebrating up there in the ether. I envision him with pals like Sam Kinison and Dan Vitale eating cake and making one another laugh. Knowing Bill...
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Love In Unusual Packaging
When Frank Sinatra died in 1998 at the age of 82, his longtime pal, the comedienne, Don Rickles was upset to find they had piped in Frank singing during his own wake. He felt it wasn’t solemn enough...
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When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
I’m in the Park walking home. It’s pretty cold. There’s a tall, burly man with a Kennedyesque set of teeth who clearly doesn’t feel it. He’s in a light army green parka over jeans without a hat or...
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Stoned With Alexander Hamilton
Once again I found myself near Trinity Church, deciding to pay another visit to Alexander Hamilton buried in their graveyard. When I entered, a group of 15 or so people were in the midst of a tour. I...
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Did You Know…The Things We Do For Love Edition
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were together for twenty-six years until his death at 67 of a heart attack. They were staying in the guesthouse of their friend, the director George Cukor when it...
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Did You Know…Hard To Believe Edition
In 1964 Martin Luther King, at 35 was then the youngest recipient to receive the Noble Peace Prize for his non-violent leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. Not until 2014, would Malala Yousafzai...
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Teddy Still Teaching From Above
I’ve just reread… A Bully Father…Letters Theodore Roosevelt Wrote To His Children, by Jean Paterson Kerr. He too reread books he liked and said, they always read brand new. This goes for me too....
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Those Wacky Presidents
Thomas Jefferson was a shopaholic, forced to sell all of his books to pay his debts. Of course his vast collection did sire the Library of Congress, so Tom at least could still hold his head up while...
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The Hypocritical You
I always claim I never read fiction, yet my three favorite books are all novels. I insist not being interested at all in younger men, then find myself cooing like a dove in their presence....
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Susannah’s Spring, Summer Reading List…2024
I’ll start with our eminent United States Capitol, beginning with a favorite book of mine I’ve read many times. The American Spirit: Who We Are And What We Stand For…David McCullough (2017) He so...
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The Pagliacci of Presidents
I don’t expect much interest in this since who cares about a past president, especially an obscure one. But I wrote about him anyway. It’s hard to find integrity in anyone these days, so that’s what...
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Did You Know…The Slightly Tacky Edition
Harry Truman served as Vice-President for only 82 days before replacing his boss, Franklin D. Roosevelt who died at 63 without any drumroll, his doctors not letting on how sick he really was....
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Did You Know…The Parlez-vous francais Edition
We all seem tantalized by anything French, starting with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy who was admonished as First Lady for preferring French couture. The designer, Oleg Cassini forced upon her, one...
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A Quiet Loss
John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwill were more than just first cousins, their mothers being sisters. They were best friends since they were kids. Both stood up for each other at one another’s...
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Smiles Soon Available On Amazon Prime
I smiled at 14 people while in the park this morning, purposely counting them. Only three smiled back, all dog owners proving once again, the four-legged improve our moods. When had a friendly...
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Erik Larson’s…The Demon of Unrest
My friend Joanne thoughtfully sent me Erik Larson’s latest historical epic recapping the sad drumroll leading up to the American Civil War, an apt read on this Memorial Day. Larson is a favorite of...
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D-Day…80th Anniversary
The Normandy Invasion, or Operation Overlord, as it was called, began at 12:15 a.m. on June 6, 1944, when more than 13,000 Americans from the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions began to parachute...
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Light Summer Reading
Maybe it’s the heat, but there’s nothing like good high-end fluff to keep you company on a sultry Sunday afternoon. Happens every summer. History goes on hiatus as I haul out cheesy, breezy...
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Patriotism Once Was
I just finished the most breathtaking book. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents In Crisis… George Stephanopoulos (2024) When my friend Joanne first recommended it, I shrugged since it...
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Political Warfare
The venom taking place towards this November presidential election is shameful. To hate one man so much because of the incessant lies of another is chilling, but as always, an essay blossomed...
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