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Swinging Sixties Secretaries & Sexual Harassment: The 1967 Movie Musical That First Confronted It
Sometimes a catchy tune can say it better than editorials or protest rallies. Among the most revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment towards women who worked for him or auditioned for a role in one of his films,… Read More ›
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Ivana Be First Lady: Trump Wives Tales, A President Who Married His Niece & Other Multiple-Wife Presidencies
Most Americans are entirely unaware of the scandalous fact that a President lived in the White House at the same time with both of his wives. And there was that sensitive First Lady who was so jealous over the first… Read More ›
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100 Forgotten Pictures of Presidential Family Life 100 Years Ago: The Tafts & Wilsons
From the perspective of 2017, a hundred years ago seems might as well be the medieval age. Technology, globalization, medical science, really everything, has so permanently changed the way we all live that there seems to be little resemblance to… Read More ›
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The Real Turquoise Waterfalls at the Grand Canyon
I got my first “incomplete” in third grade, failing to properly answer a grammar school essay explaining how our favorite color made us feel. I wrote blue because it felt calm and green because it felt alive. No, snapped the teacher with what… Read More ›
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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 ›