Category Archives: Consumers

Vintage baby photo 1920s

Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.

In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this

Vintage baby photo 1920s

Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.

In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this

Watch- “I Am An American”

What happens when the country you pledged allegiance to is no longer the country you recognize? A worn third-grade civics book becomes the lens through which I examine America’s broken promises. Beginning with the patriotic lessons of my 1963 classroom,

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Watch- “I Am An American”

What happens when the country you pledged allegiance to is no longer the country you recognize? A worn third-grade civics book becomes the lens through which I examine America’s broken promises. Beginning with the patriotic lessons of my 1963 classroom,

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FDR’s Birthday Balls -A Birthday Celebration Worthy of a President

Everything about Trump’s tacky, self-indulgent atrocity billed as a Birthday Celebration was vulgar. The travesty was worse than we imagined. A violent, Vegas-style carousel of greased-up men duking it out Gladiator style on the White House lawn, desecrating sacred ground

FDR’s Birthday Balls -A Birthday Celebration Worthy of a President

Everything about Trump’s tacky, self-indulgent atrocity billed as a Birthday Celebration was vulgar. The travesty was worse than we imagined. A violent, Vegas-style carousel of greased-up men duking it out Gladiator style on the White House lawn, desecrating sacred ground

 Marilyn Monroe and Me

I was four years old in 1959, when I first dressed up as Marilyn Monroe, and it would follow me to my freshman year at Syracuse University, where I regularly roamed the halls of my dorm, decked out as the

 Marilyn Monroe and Me

I was four years old in 1959, when I first dressed up as Marilyn Monroe, and it would follow me to my freshman year at Syracuse University, where I regularly roamed the halls of my dorm, decked out as the

Steven Colbert’s Long Goodbye Comes to an End

First they came for the comedians… Steven Colbert’s long goodbye came to an end last night We lost one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful critics of Donald Trump and his lawless, authoritarian regime. Shame on you, CBS.

Steven Colbert’s Long Goodbye Comes to an End

First they came for the comedians… Steven Colbert’s long goodbye came to an end last night We lost one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful critics of Donald Trump and his lawless, authoritarian regime. Shame on you, CBS.

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Watch- American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Watch- American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I

Did Dr. Strangelove Predict Donald Trump?

As an unhinged, demented Donald Trump continues to go verbally nuclear around the war in Iran, the very thought of his erratic, tiny fingers anywhere near the button for the nuclear codes sends cold war shivers down my spine. I