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A Subject for Consideration: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. Paula, Paula, Paula. As sponsors drop/suspend relations with Paula Deen like a steaming hot hush puppy, I wonder why she keeps making missteps. My favorite recent Deen-ism summed it up when she spoke on the Today Show: "I is what I is." This 'regular folk' talk sure sells a ton of products but this time it just seems to add more cement to the coffin that is her vision of herself. Whoever Paula is, it is currently not working on her chosen medium - television. I don't care about h...
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A Subject for Consideration: 08/01/2014 - 09/01/2014
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Saturday, August 23, 2014. A Frantic City, NJ. Dear Atlantic City,. Oh, how you've changed. I grew up visiting you during all my childhood summers. My family even spent some Thanksgivings and Easters with you. You were my first seashore love. I was blind to all other towns to the north and south of you. You've always been a city to me because before casino gambling rolled into town, you. Contained intimate, vibrant neighborhoods. You were rough around the edges, but pulsed with ethnic life. In August, 19...
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A Subject for Consideration: On The Radio ~ Whoa~ohhhhh~oh~
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. On The Radio Whoa ohhhhh oh. We said it really loud, we said it on the air, on the radio. The only thing this post has in common with Donna Summer is that the topic takes place in the summer .on the radio. I just could not resist her lyrics because my book club has gone audio! We've been chosen to discuss Karen Russell's latest effort, "Sleep Donation," on WNYC's radio program. The discussion airs noon,. L to R: Me, Lou, Joanie. We have over 190 novels checked off in the Read and D...
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A Subject for Consideration: 10/01/2013 - 11/01/2013
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Monday, October 7, 2013. Hold That Thought.and Note. Imagine 70 singers and musicians holding a single sound for 20 minutes. A single sound - namely a D major chord - for a full 20 minutes. For another 20 minutes. Stay with me now. The performance, called Monotone-Silence Symphony, was the 1960's. Brainchild of Yves Klein, a conceptual painter who died at age 34. It was recently performed at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. CBS Sunday Morning reported on the eccentric piece. As we...
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A Subject for Consideration: 12/01/2013 - 01/01/2014
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Monday, December 30, 2013. Things I Learned in 2013. Kids leave the nest. I know as little as I did when they first entered, minus the anxiety. Elementary schools are incredibly cheery places to work. I taught my girls about living in the suburbs; they are teaching me about city living. Looking down the barrel of 'way over fifty' feels odd and scary. Shucking clams is a fine skill. When kids visit the nest, familiar patterns sneak in as well. Julian Barnes' writing gives me goose bumps. Saying "my colleg...
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A Subject for Consideration: 09/01/2013 - 10/01/2013
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013. New York State of Crime. One moment I was texting my daughter about a her new part-time job at school; the next there was nothing. So I followed up with email and Facebook messages. Where did she go? Well, she went nowhere; her phone took off. A ne'er-do-well (aka vile thief) stole her phone at a local coffee shop. It was a slight of hand that, while irritating and unfair, thankfully did not culminate in her being harmed. Yet, I realize my perspective is damaged. As we screec...
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A Subject for Consideration: Robin Williams
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Robin Williams' jarring death has become a shared experience. His audience has loved him in life and now aches over his departure. Over 1,000 comments sit aside the NYTimes article announcing his passing, like pallbearers trying to hold him up; trying to switch roles and keep the comedian in a suspended state of love. He was the morphing face behind the comedy/tragedy mask. After my first glimpse of him as an alien introduced on the TV show. Inside the Actors Studio. He made sur...
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A Subject for Consideration: 08/01/2013 - 09/01/2013
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Monday, August 5, 2013. Why I Love "Breaking Bad". In a drug laced world of hardcore bad guys (and some ruthless women,) Walter White aka Heisenberg (actor Bryan Cranston) is a car wreck and I cannot stop rubber necking. I am addicted to the AMC series "Breaking Bad" and know that I will experience some serious withdrawal when the series finale airs this Fall. For now, however, I wait along with millions of other rubberneckers for Season 8 to begin on August 11th. Why do I love this show? 6 Another beaut...
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A Subject for Consideration: Like A Girl
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Sunday, June 29, 2014. Ten things that surfaced after watching this video recently released by Procter and Gamble.(. The P&G survey found that out of 1,300 American females ages 16 to 24 years old, only 19 percent have a positive association toward the phrase, "like a girl."). 2 I recently used that phrase when talking with college friends about my athleticism and I wasn't bragging. 3 How thoughtless of me - right? 5 What do you think when you hear/say someone is "a pussy? That they are a kitten? I've ne...
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A Subject for Consideration: Cookie Snob
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Monday, December 1, 2014. Now that the great American turkey holiday is behind us, the next item in my culinary forecast is deciding over cookies; not just any cookies. I am thinking about Christmas cookies. For me, eleven and a half months out of the year are meant for baking many tarts, pies and such. But when December rolls around, it's time to brush off those special holiday cookie recipes and ponder which ones will make the cut. Yellowed, worn and wonderful-. Recipe cards are a comfort still. I sear...
