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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No, Charlie, we do not need more Senators like Maine’s Susan Collins. We don’t even need Susan Collins. What we do need is to flip the Senate and deal responsibly with Covid-19 impacts, revitalize environmental standards to halt…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. News of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday hit hard, but it did not come as a surprise. She had been diagnosed with cancer five times since 1999 and fought back fiercely. When she succumbed, at the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When you’re done reading James H. Barron’s new sweeping biography and political thriller, “The Greek Connection,” (shameless plug!) here are some other non-fiction possibilities for the last weeks of summer. Not everything has to be about Donald Trump!…
Read More »Before a neck injury in 2005 Irish poet Monica Corish spent many years travelling, living and working in Africa. Based now in Co. Leitrim, in her poems here Corish brings the reader from the sublime beauty of a night spent on a mountaintop near Lokichokio in northern Kenya in her…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The most discordant note in Joe Kennedy’s elegiac concession speech on Tuesday night was his observation that, even knowing the outcome, if he had to do it all over again, he would do it “in a heartbeat.” Giving…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. RNC a gaslight convention In what universe do Trump Republicans reside? The world embraced by their national convention is the kind of horror show I’d never pay to see, and couldn’t sit through if it were free. Cue threatening…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I voted Saturday. I responded to a universal mailing from the Secretary of State’s office, indicating I wanted a mail-in ballot. The pandemic has blunted my decades-long pleasure of going to the local polling place and participating with…
Read More »In this photo essay, Beginning Again, contemplative photographer, writer and award-winning blogger, Catherine Drea reflects on the experience of being in lockdown during COVID-19. Her place is rural County Waterford in south-east Ireland and her reflections and stunning photographs show us the art of paying attention, always with an eye…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I was never a big fan of Kamala Harris when she was running for President. Yet I am surprisingly pleased by her selection to be Joe Biden’s running mate. The former California Attorney General and San Francisco district…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. What do Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sy Hersh, Mitch Zuckoff, and Steve Kinzer and other illustrious authors have in common? They’re all high on “The Greek Connection: the Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate.” Goodwin…
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