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The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Presidents have their social secretaries to tell them when to applaud during a White House concert. The rest of us, President Obama says, are on our own. But some of today’s rigid rules need rethinking. Last Saturday night at the Boston Symphony,…

I’m really not into watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but this video is fun..especially since one of the performers is family a member.

Larry David’s Thanksgiving Special from Larry David

I found this interesting video of a parade in Dracut on YouTube. It was originally posted by MrHooper024

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fifty years ago today, the woman was not yet a journalist.  She was barely 24, a Wellesley College graduate, living in a thoroughly domestic life in a garden apartment in Norwood, getting used to days and weeks totally…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The talking heads are calling this year’s snafus in the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act Obama’s Katrina, likening it to the FEMA debacle in responding to the deadly 2005 hurricane that wasted Louisiana.  I think the handling of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Still-a-state rep Marty Walsh appeared yesterday on Channel Five’s On the Record. The candidate who, in debates and interviews, was unprepossessing at best, often awkward with rhetoric trending banal, is looking more and more mayoral. His presentation was…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When my husband and I visited the Terezin  [also known as Theresienstadt] concentration camp outside of Prague in 1990, we could only begin to imagine the horrors the Nazis visited upon the political prisoners and Jews housed there.  The barracks where human beings…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Don’t believe the hype: Ted Cruz and Tea Partiers weren’t big losers. Most other people were. The recent partial shut-down and near default of the US government led by rogue  deficit hawks cost American taxpayers at least $24…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston mayoral candidates Marty Walsh and John Connolly met in their first debate Tuesday and discussed issues to a draw. No surprise.  There’s little that separates them on matters of policy.  Rep. Walsh did what he had to…