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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As my followers can tell, I do love reading, which served me well during my recovery. But this finishes my current reviews. Happily, I have returned to normal life, seeing friends, going to restaurants, trying to outwit…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently defenestrated Chris Licht is now the former CNN chair and CEO. He had been successful in his previous roles, including show-running the Stephen Colbert show, but he was in over his head – running one of the the three…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Rachael Rollins seemed to have such promise. She was a gutsy woman, highly articulate in a no-nonsense way. Willing to stand up to hardened criminals. Eager to challenge a cookie-cutter system of justice with an ingrained preference for…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Painfully recovering from seven broken ribs wasn’t all bad. It enabled a ton of reading. The following represents a few of the books with which I busied myself. More will be posted soon. A Burning by Megha Majumdar is a…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Toxic politics, anti-democratic nativism, uncivil behavior and willful stupidity – all dominate our sense of life in the United States today. But every once in a while, something happens that renews one’s faith in the human condition. One…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I remember when the U. S. Supreme Court was held in high esteem.Today less than a third of Americans polled view SCOTUS even somewhat favorably. Justice Clarence Thomas is a poster boy for why that is so. With a…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newsflash! Joe Biden is a candidate for reelection. It’s hard not to be a little dispirited by the prospects of a replay of the 2020 election. As many as two thirds of both major parties are distinctly unenthusiastic…

The entry below is being cross-post from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Three months ago, for the first time in 13 years, I took temporary leave of my blog to deal with the fall-out (unfortunate term in this context) of having tripped and broken what turned out to be seven…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakins is a brilliant accounting of America’s slowness to embrace modern art, from the post-impressionists on. Even while Europe was enthralled by Matisse and intrigued by Picasso, those and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Optimistic. Intelligent. Articulate. Polished. Upbeat. Confident. Michelle Wu is a great look for Boston. And so was the audience for her State of the City talk last Wednesday, one year into her term as mayor. Several thousand…