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Long-Ago Dogs & Their Devoted Companions: The Days of the Dogs
We think we’re so different because of either our age or the age in which we live. Mastercards, Hybrids, iPhones, eHarmony, we’re just so damn with it that we often feel like just shoving it up the app and being… Read More ›
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To Know Mrs. Onassis: Why Jackie Kennedy’s Life as Art Endures
Her full name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, but from the start she was always just “Jackie” to both those who genuinely knew her as a real person, and to those who felt they truly knew her, so closely… Read More ›
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Jefferson’s Warning About the Current Man Occupying the Presidency
A July Fourth tradition in the United States, until about the mid-Seventies, involved a public reading of the Declaration of Independence in town gatherings before picnics, games and fireworks. In 2017, it really should be read again. Read it on… Read More ›
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A Dozen First Lady Fourths: Presidential Wives’ Independence Days Radically Diverse
Since that day of July 4, 1776. when its independence was first declared by the American colonies upon the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the United States has marked Independence Day for 240 years. It was only thirteen years… Read More ›
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Helping A Very Old Dog Live Well & Naturally: A Two-Part Series
On June 3, 2011, my very beloved canine companion Yeager died. I wrote this two-part article on what I learned about caring for a Very Old Dog, the genesis of a book by the same title I have continued to… Read More ›
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Melanie Trump, A Bess Truman for the Twenty-First Century
Last week marked a new uptick on coverage of the new First Lady – not for where she was, but where she wasn’t. She was only briefly spotted on the tarmac at Palm Beach, Florida, striking a pose, a political… Read More ›
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Those Seventies Women: Betty Ford on Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Tyler Moore at Betty Ford
Mary and Betty. Plain names, but when associated with two particularly famous women, both names can still become vivid enough to instantly recall their smiling wit and immediately place them in our collective memories, even for those not yet born… Read More ›
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First Ladies On The Steps & In the Car Together: A Century-Old Tradition
Yesterday’s inauguration offered one new precedent – a lavishly iced Inaugural Cake in shades of red, white and blue, sliced by the new president at one of the balls. The Tiffany box gift presented by Melania Trump to Michelle Obama,… Read More ›
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Will Ivanka Trump Melania? First Lady Tag Teams of History
“I can do one of two things,” President Theodore Roosevelt snapped after being informed that his First Daughter, Alice, had yet again been seen in that embarrassingly vulgar act of cigarette smoking. “I can be President of the United States… Read More ›
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Former Presidents Who Attended Inaugurations – And Didn’t
They may not like him, but they’ll be there. Despite the fact that Bill Clinton’s wife ran a hard campaign against the president-elect for the presidency, that Jimmy Carter spoke of him as a danger and that George W…. Read More ›