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July 4th 2024…By The Dawn’s Early Light
I hadn’t planned on writing this, but then couldn’t ignore the day, one I’ve always loved. I can still see our American Flag proudly waving from our upstairs porch. With all their faults, my...
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Did You Know…Notes By The Bed
I haven’t written one of these in a while. After looking at the pad I keep near my bed, saw there were many things I found interesting enough to jot down. An eclectic list to be sure. Here goes....
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Mr. Mrs. John F. Kennedy Jr.
It’s twenty-five years since John and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy died in that senseless plane crash along with her older sister Lauren. Like when his father died, you can’t help remembering where...
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Life On The Train
Uptown C Train 3 P.M. Just when you think things can’t get any stranger, you find yourself on a subway car with a crazy Trump supporter. A woman of a certain age is going from person to person...
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What Lincoln Said
Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth President, when on March 4, 1861, gave his First Inaugural Address on the steps of the United States Capitol, the same steps that were violated on January 6, 2021, his...
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Did You Know…The Hmm, You Don’t Say Edition
On February 14th, Valentine’s Day 1880, 22 year-old Theodore Roosevelt became engaged to Alice Hathaway Lee, just 19, sending his Little Pearl 42 opulent bouquets. A dozen roses were clearly not...
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An Interesting Couple
She was a beautiful woman of an uncertain age…50s perhaps… with shoulder length blonde hair dancing in the breeze. Elegantly dressed in sleek beige trousers stopping at the ankle showing off...
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Arlington National Cemetery…Before And After Trump
This isn’t about Donald Trump’s latest blunder when he spoke there, though it did inspire me to come to its defense. To be honest, I’m pretty tired of all that pertains to him, like going to the...
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Susannah’s Fall, Winter Reading List…2024-2025
In movie terms, a sleeper is a film that wasn’t expected to do well, but became a surprise hit. Think Chariots of Fire, Little Miss Sunshine and The Artist that ended up grossing 133.4 million...
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With Malice Toward None
Lincoln’s prophetic words from his Second Inaugural Address, sweep across me….with malice toward none, with charity for all… I also keep thinking of what’s on a one dollar bill…E Pluribus Unum,...
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Did You Know…World War II…The Blitz Edition
In 1941, Joseph P. Kennedy was replaced as the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, for favoring Natzi policies. He without consulting FDR, announced we should stay...
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Some Of Us Will Never Forget
It was unusual for me not to post an essay on the 23rd Anniversary of September 11, 2001. I decided, after always having someone make a snarky remark of how I should just let it go, to do exactly...
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If Lincoln Had Email
It’s well known that after Abraham Lincoln died, angry letters he never sent were found in his desk drawer. The most famous one he wrote was to General George Meade after the Battle of Gettysburg,...
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Coffee..My Drug Of Choice
I love coffee. If possible, I’d have an IV of Dark Roast tangoing up my arm. My friend David just sent me two pounds of the best blend Erie, Pennsylvania has to offer. Considering all the bad press...
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The Aftermath You Didn’t Expect
I’d be lying if I said, I wasn’t shocked Kamala Harris didn’t win. That evil trumped good, sad pun intended. I know many people are happy, including some of my own followers who will remain nameless....
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Life On The Train
Number 6 Local 1 pm I’ve taken the black crepe off the windows along with my widow’s weeds trying to accept the things I can’t change. Or as my late friend Jackie would say, making lemonade out...
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Did You Know…Little Known Facts Edition
The actor Chris Cooper everyone loves whose name no one remembers, lost his 17 year-old son, Jesse, in 2005 from complications from Cerebral Palsy stricken at birth. Nineteen years later, he and his...
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Did You Know…Quirky Facts Edition
Actors Bill Murray and Richard Gere both have grown sons named Homer. Mary Lincoln, Abe’s neurotic missus, was jealous of Julia Grant, U.S. Grant’s significant other despite Mrs. Grant being as...
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Bullet points
Why did the media go bananas when Jill Biden was cordial to Donald Trump when they met at the reopening celebration of Notre-Dame? Why is rude the norm and politeness the rarity? Should pleasantness...
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Happy Birthday Bill
I was thinking of you Bill when a cardinal landed at my feet. A woman nearby said it was a sign from someone no longer here. It startled me, and not because of what she said, but that it always...
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