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What Will Be?
My life looks nothing like the one I had a year ago right before the virus hit. It feels as if I’m living someone else’s, having no clue how to get the old one back. I remember working downtown on … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Faith, food, grace, Gratitude, Health, History, Home, humanity, New York City, war, words, writing
Tagged The Aftermath of Covid 19, The Coronavirus, The Difference in a Year 2020-2021, What 2021 Will Look Like
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Did You Know…American Civil War Edition
At 4:30 a.m. on April 12th, 1861, the American Civil War began. Four years later on April 9th, 1865, after 620,000 men mostly boys many between the ages of 13 and 17 died, ended. President Abraham Lincoln being told, there … Continue reading
War Is Hell
I was perusing Bruce Catton’s classic book, Surrender at Appomattox, when I came across William Tecumseh Sherman’s famous quote, war is hell. After accepting the pandemic as a foreign enemy we just can’t see, I’ve concluded, it sure is. Seems … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, humanity, New York City, war, words
Tagged Covid-19 2020, Dealing with bad behavior, Getting Vaccinated, grace under fire, The American Civil War
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Did You Know?
When you come out of Union Station in Washington D.C., the first thing you see is the U.S. Capitol, beaming, across the sky. At Christmas, it’s even lit up. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), President Abraham Lincoln insisted, the … Continue reading
Did You Know?
Eleanor Roosevelt was a hair under six feet tall, and the first, First Lady (1933-1945) to ever ride in an airplane. Wonder if she bumped her head. In 1921, President Warren Harding’s Airedale Terrier, Laddie Boy, was the first White … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, Beauty, Cinema, creative writing, Culture, dessert, History, humanity, humor, media, Politics, travel, violence, war, words, writing
Tagged Emmett Till Antilynching Act, famous actors, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Interesting facts, Old time horse racing, The film Quick Change
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Voting 6 Feet Apart
The drum roll has begun. Why does this presidential election feel more like the apocalypse than a Democracy? Hell if I know. Rather than noble Americans, we’re more like the Jets and Sharks in West Side Story, the way we’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Faith, grace, History, humanity, inspiration, media, Politics, readng, war, Women and men, words, writing
Tagged 2020 Presidential Election, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Peggy Noonan oped Wall Street Journal October 31, Voting is a privilege, Women suffrages
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Comfort Food
You’re expecting me to say Oreos or mashed potatoes. Not that I don’t love them, but a day or so ago, when I wasn’t feeling my particular best, went to my trusty book shelf and took down The Killer Angels, … Continue reading
Did You Know?…Noir Edition
During the editing of Ken Burns’s epic film, The Civil War, when they came to the part where Abraham Lincoln gets shot at Ford’s Theater, he and his colleagues sat there, not wanting to lay the track for the sound … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, animals, Culture, Family, History, humanity, humor, inspiration, New York City, Politics, violence, war, words, writing
Tagged American History, Famous people laid to rest, Films by Ken Burns, Knowledge, Trivia
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General Andrew Cuomo
New York has finally seen the day, without one virus fatality. After all we’ve been through, whoever would have thought. Governor Andrew Cuomo has done his work well, but as he’s already said, it’s not over yet. States that opened … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Faith, grace, Health, History, humanity, money, New York City, Politics, readng, war, words, writing
Tagged Governor Andrew Cuomo, Reopening restaurants, Second Wave of Covid 19, The Battle of Gettysburg, The Corona Virus
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