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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Outrage over sexual assault shouldn’t be a partisan contest. Whether you’re Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein or Bob in Accounting, sexual predation is inexcusable. But as bad as their behavior, I’m…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. So, the consoler-in-chief has visited Las Vegas in the wake of a mass slaughter at a concert there, and, unlike yesterday’s shameful performance in Puerto Rico, he stayed on script. He called the gunman “sick and demented,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “What Happened?” It’s a question many have been asking at least daily for the last ten months. So it’s an apt title for Hillary Clinton’s new book, a reasonably clear-eyed analysis of the 2016 presidential election debacle. While…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. AP Photo Joe DeNucci won most of his fights in the ring and in politics. In a long series of majority decisions, he won his fight for the hearts of the people. But on Friday, at the age…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After three harrowing days, our cousins and their dog, Harry (see photo from drier days), were rescued Monday from their home in the Meyerland section of Houston. They live but a stone’s throw from a bayou in a gracious…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. One blue-eyed, baby-faced demonstrator in Charlottesville, Virginia tells you all you need to know about what drives the alt-right haters, the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and their ilk. Said Sean Patrick Nielsen, “I’m here because our Republican…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump has left the White House. For 17 days. For a vacation in New Jersey. Is it safe to come out? Initially, I thought so. After Senators John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski stood tall to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This is Old Home Week in Freedom, New Hampshire, population 1500. The town was incorporated in 1832 after it seceded from next-door Effingham in a dispute over whose taxes would pay for a bridge between the two. Freedom…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. History is often best revealed through the personal stories and relationships of individuals. So it is with these non-fiction books I’ve read of late. An Invisible Thread is a deeply personal memoir of two lives brought together by…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. On a rainy October-like day, there’s nothing like settling in with good fiction to escape from the Trumpian travails of our time. Here, in no particular order, are some of the books I’ve been reading over the past…
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