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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tonight the Boston Red Sox return, in diminished form but a return nonetheless. And, I confess, I’m happy about that. The game against the Baltimore Orioles offers more than a departure from news about COVID-19, corrupt politics and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Politics isn’t everything. On a holiday like July 4th, celebrating our nation’s independence and its brilliant founding documents, it is tempting to recount the myriad ways that our President has trampled on the promises made therein. Unsparingly, he…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When I found myself agreeing with President Trump that the media were making too much of his super-cautious walking down a ramp at West Point, I knew I needed a break from media coverage. Yes, he might well…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. What’s the real reason Congressman Joe Kennedy is challenging Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey this year?  It may well be that he fears if he waited for an open race for the Senate, after Markey or Senator Elizabeth Warren,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The peaceful protests continue amidst emerging proposals for policy change, but will  they amount to anything? Longtime Boston leader and community activist Hubie Jones, in his unpublished book Black in Boston: A Lover’s Quarrel, came to understand the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The lump in my throat won’t go away. It’s not the onset of the coronavirus. It is the result of another terrible disease afflicting this nation, the lethal virus of racism and racial injustice. I close my…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. photo CNN Has Donald Trump finally reached his Joe McCarthy tipping point moment? Trump’s malevolently vicious attack on the memory of Lori Klausitis, which he wielded as a weapon to sully persistent critic Joe Scarborough, took me…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog.   Donna Morrissey was a ray of sunshine. She was an authentic humanitarian, beautiful, intelligent, warm, and committed to serving the community. After early work in television, she handled public relations for the Boston Archdiocese in the first…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Worrying about those, including close friends and relatives, suffering from the pandemic virus itself,  fretting about its economic fallout and spending up to eight hours a day in assorted Zoom meetings, I have lacked the focus to write…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. During our sheltering from the COVID-19 virus, reading can provide a meaningful escape from the constant hand washing, planning our grocery orders and listening to the news. The following are some of my recent immersions in fiction and…