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• Agent Orange

  October 16, 2020

  Agent Orange has now spread a toxic cloud that has seeped into every crevice of the country.  His followers have been gassed up close.  The rats will soon be jumping overboard.  Stephen Miller and Bill Barr, Ivanka and Jared, Rudy and Lindsey and Capt. McConnell will be the last on the sinking sh...

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• The end of childhood

  October 12, 2020

  The past is never dead.  It’s not even past. William Faulkner Memories of the past are a strange thing for siblings because they can recall things from their days growing up together that one or the other can’t possibly remember about the same event, or even that it occurred. My brother and I are...

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• Caregiving 101: Take care of yourself

  October 9, 2020

  Caregiving essentials:  Take care of yourself   …When caregivers continually devote most of their time, energy, to a person with dementia, it’s easy to lose perspective.  Because thy are so intently focused on the needs of their lives one, caregivers may de devalue or even ignore their own p...

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• Rest In Peace, Johnny Nash

  October 7, 2020

  I’m sad tonight to learn that we have lost a beautiful soul in the world of music. Johnny Nash passed away at the age of 80.  His legendary song of hope, “I can See Clearly Now,” is my favorite song.  It has never failed  to bring a smile to my face and a feeling of…

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• Photography: memories, mystery and realities

  October 3, 2020

  Photography is fascinating to me because it’s both descriptive and symbolic at the same time. Descriptive because it shows you something that looks like the world and symbolic because the best photographs not only show you the world but also seem to reach beyond it, to speak of something more. A ...

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• Me and my shadow

  September 30, 2020

  Over they years on my walks, whether it’s along the streets of my neighborhood or in parks, gardens and nature preserves,  I often look to the side on sunny late afternoons and see my shadow walking along with me, my moving silhouetted self. And I always have a camera with me.  Suddenly I might h...

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• You can’t go home again

  September 27, 2020

  When the pandemic came abruptly into our lives this past February, it was not a very difficult process for me to self quarantine.  I was used to living alone, and although I hadn’t been living in that state for the ten years leading up to the end of January when my mother, whom I had…

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• September Song

  September 25, 2020

  It’s nearly the end of September and I can’t let this strange month in the year of the pandemic slip by without recalling two of my favorite songs, each bringing back so many memories from long ago when times were so different and hope filled the air. When I was young, September meant returning t...

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• Time capsules and disappearing civilizations

  September 24, 2020

  Remember the infamous Y2K bug which would cause all the world’s clocks and calendars to get messed up?  Computers would go haywire and there would be chaos unleashed on the planet.  I grimly waited for the countdown on December 31, 1999, thinking to myself how the ushering in of new millennium wa...

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