I shopped early (5:35) this morning & only bought “good for me” live food from the outer perimeters of the store.   The good for you live food in a grocery store is always on the outer perimeters–did you know that?  That’s because it has to be constantly monitored, swapped out, and refreshed.   The…

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“The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray…” Robert Burns   I had every intention of writing a blog post here earlier today, but then I got a new client, so I ended up spending about two hours reviewing his source materials and writing for him (earning $250 in the process), and…

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MISTER ROGERS CAPTIVATES ME AGAIN   I’ve just finished reading a wonderful book, Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever, by Gavin Edwards.   For a person who was all grown up and agreeably childless by the time Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood debuted, you might find it curious that I’ve become, after…

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I’ve just read GEORGE and RICK, two books by Alex Gino. I wish there had been books like this at Scholastic when I was growing up, to help explain to me who I am and that there were others like me, but there are now, so I’m overjoyed for the LGBTQIA+ kids who are growing…

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I’ve been in lockdown mode a lot longer than most people because I recognized the immense danger of COVID-19 after (I believe) falling victim to it in mid-February and just barely surviving the experience.   So, I’ve been isolated more than two months as of this writing. During this time, I’ve gone through all the…

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If A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood doesn’t earn Tom Hanks an Oscar, I will be not just surprised, but deeply dismayed.   Hanks resurrected the man without making him a saint or a hero — something Fred Rogers himself would find satisfying, I hope.   I discovered Fred Rogers very late in life–less than a…

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Get it at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2umyLV2 Here, in an understandable, easy-to-read form, is the hidden history of how we got this close to unconquerable oligarchy without being made any the wiser.   Here is how a cadre of individuals, working behind closed doors (because they knew their goals were anathema to the vast majority of the…

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Martha Beck has always been one of my favorite writers. Usually a non-fiction writer of self-help and life coaching books (and a regular contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine), this time she has written a fictional novel–Diana, Herself, An Allegory of Awakening that will very likely delight and transform anyone who decides to pick it…

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I’ve just finished reading The Journey Back from Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors.   I read a book or two about the World War II Holocaust at least every couple of years. Although I wasn’t born when it took place, from a very young age I heard the stories, watched the trials, saw the…

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Since getting Amazon Prime recently I’ve been catching up on TV series whose synopses have intrigued me. I’ve read and now seen Good Girls Revolt (terrific), Transparent (edgy and upsetting in more ways than I will articulate here, like watching a train wreck in slow motion, but impossible to look away from; an excellent series…

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