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The entry below is being cross posted from from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. South Beach is lovely this time of year, especially in that special residential anti-glitz, non-tourist world South of Fifth. Thank goodness for the generosity of friends. Cloudless blue skies, sunny days in the low 80s with low…
Read More »Today March 15, is the infamous Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman Senators led by Brutus and Cassius. The murder became the subject of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Consequently, most high school students readily remember the eerie…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jerry Remy is back, broadcasting from Red Sox spring training. His return to the broadcast booth last weekend was duly reported on local news. Hearing his voice was familiar but definitely odd. He’s doing his usual color analysis, but…
Read More »Over the past year or so I have been wondering if I could actually “cut the cord”…the cable TV cord that is. And I’m finding there is plenty of very good /great programing available “off the cord”. Case in point…I just finished watching the entire three seasons of The Borgias…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently, Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan National Army base killing 21 soldiers as they slept. It was said to be the worst single blow to government forces since 2010. Corruption remains rampant in Afghanistan, fueled by the inflow of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When President Obama back in 2010 said of the flawed Affordable Care Act, pass it now, fix it later, perhaps he never dreamed of the extent to which politics would have paralyzed the U.S. Congress. In the past,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The initial images of the Sochi winter Olympics – tap water the color of urine, treacherous unfinished sidewalks, bathroom doors that wouldn’t open, failed opening night electronic display – have given way to images of skiers doing death-defying summersaults…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Shirley Temple was three years old back in the 1930′s when she started her performance career. She achieved major league stardom between the ripe old ages of six and 11. With her curly hair and twinkly eyes, she…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Claps for the Boston Sunday Globe’s photojournalism spread by Mary Beth Meehan showing the pattern of violence in New Bedford against Mayan Guatemalans. They fled the war in Guatamela and came here for peace and opportunity, but they’re being beaten…
Read More »Fifty years ago on February 9, 1964 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their performance is a part of music history. Two years after the Sullivan performance, the Beatles came to Massachusetts. It was 1966 and I was fifteen years old…and I loved the Beatles (as I still…
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