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Who the Hell Wants a Great Society? 

  Who the hell wants a great society? Marjorie Taylor Greene sure doesn’t and she’s dead set on making sure you won’t either. Who in their right mind wants health care, education, and better infrastructure? Who needs highways, a safety

Who the Hell Wants a Great Society? 

  Who the hell wants a great society? Marjorie Taylor Greene sure doesn’t and she’s dead set on making sure you won’t either. Who in their right mind wants health care, education, and better infrastructure? Who needs highways, a safety

Talking About Mental Health 

  How we talk about mental health matters. What better way to usher in awareness about mental health month and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues, than hearing that Donald Trump called the woman who accused him of rape

Talking About Mental Health 

  How we talk about mental health matters. What better way to usher in awareness about mental health month and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues, than hearing that Donald Trump called the woman who accused him of rape

A Childhood World of Dudes in Dresses

The looney tune Right has been waxing nostalgic about the old cartoons that unlike today weren’t hell-bent on indoctrinating our kids on deviant sexual behavior. “When we were young you could watch cartoons without having to worry,” Governor Ron DeSantis

A Childhood World of Dudes in Dresses

The looney tune Right has been waxing nostalgic about the old cartoons that unlike today weren’t hell-bent on indoctrinating our kids on deviant sexual behavior. “When we were young you could watch cartoons without having to worry,” Governor Ron DeSantis

Mothers Never Leave Us Even When They Are Gone

Fifteen years ago in a darkened hospital room, I held my mother’s frail hand and gently whispered in her ear how she was the love of my life, that I was going to tell her story, that I would write

Mothers Never Leave Us Even When They Are Gone

Fifteen years ago in a darkened hospital room, I held my mother’s frail hand and gently whispered in her ear how she was the love of my life, that I was going to tell her story, that I would write

Mad About Al Jaffee

There were sit-ins and be-ins but for as a child the sixties were all about the Fold-Ins. Mad Magazine’s ingenious feature -the back cover Fold-In was the brilliant creation of legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee who died this week at 102.

Mad About Al Jaffee

There were sit-ins and be-ins but for as a child the sixties were all about the Fold-Ins. Mad Magazine’s ingenious feature -the back cover Fold-In was the brilliant creation of legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee who died this week at 102.

March Madness

I am mad. We are living in a never-ending march of madness worthy of Alice in Wonderland. It is maddening. In March alone- While school shootings continue and nine-year-old children are killed, our legislatures are busy at work protecting the

March Madness

I am mad. We are living in a never-ending march of madness worthy of Alice in Wonderland. It is maddening. In March alone- While school shootings continue and nine-year-old children are killed, our legislatures are busy at work protecting the

Does Beauty Have an Expiration Date?

Today I turn 68 and to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration date of desirability as a woman. But here’s the un-botoxed- wrinkle in that. Every woman is an “ageing woman.” Yet the window for beguiling is

Does Beauty Have an Expiration Date?

Today I turn 68 and to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration date of desirability as a woman. But here’s the un-botoxed- wrinkle in that. Every woman is an “ageing woman.” Yet the window for beguiling is

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Women’s Equality Day

Though often unacknowledged, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. More than  40 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene opening a floodgate of dialogue about women’s rights, its déjà vu all over again. Today women are still

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Women’s Equality Day

Though often unacknowledged, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. More than  40 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene opening a floodgate of dialogue about women’s rights, its déjà vu all over again. Today women are still

Ivana Trump Divorce

Ivana Divorce -The War Between the Trumps

In 1990 the biggest war story in NYC was not Desert Storm, but the contentious and very public war between the Trumps. Classy! In the early 1990s Donald Trump and his terminally tacky behavior touched off a frenzy of tabloid

Ivana Trump Divorce

Ivana Divorce -The War Between the Trumps

In 1990 the biggest war story in NYC was not Desert Storm, but the contentious and very public war between the Trumps. Classy! In the early 1990s Donald Trump and his terminally tacky behavior touched off a frenzy of tabloid

Trump’s Ketchup Connection

Like any good red-blooded American man, Donald Trump loves his ketchup. Whether dousing it on a well-done T-bone steak or White House walls, he can’t get enough of the sticky red stuff. In fact, if the White House kitchen cupboards

Trump’s Ketchup Connection

Like any good red-blooded American man, Donald Trump loves his ketchup. Whether dousing it on a well-done T-bone steak or White House walls, he can’t get enough of the sticky red stuff. In fact, if the White House kitchen cupboards