Don Stewart — Eye-ronically, I was initially trying to make an “ear” pun out of corn, which didn’t work so well. With a little bit..
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Video Series I – Staying Put
Kristi Denton Cohen — The following are just a few of the many videos available for viewing on Kristi’s site. The first deals with shared housing,..
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Video Series II – Moving On
Kristi Denton Cohen — The first of these videos provides information about Co-Housing; an old concept made new again. At present there are 165 multi-generational..
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How the Members of OWL’S Parliament are Living Now
As it happens, eight of the nine of us have made the choice, so far at least, to stay in the homes we’ve been in..
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Excerpts from “The Afternoon of a Faun” – an Art Book
Barry McCallion — The Afternoon of a Faun was the first in a series of modernist milestones that interested me. Nijinsky’s/Stravinsky’s/Ballet Russe production of..
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The DOJ Must Indict
Alma Flesch – (This piece was originally written in June 2022 as a letter to the editor of the NYTimes in response to the article:..
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Look, Learn, Laugh
Funny stuff about words and language found and shared by friends (with all due credit to Language Nerds and Bored Panda). CategoriesHoots
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Remembering Trude Rittmann
Joan Holtzman — It happens, sometimes, that we do not fully appreciate the people who were part of our young lives; sometimes the larger world..
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A Fine Welcome
Pete Philipps — We had been in America only a few weeks and living on the third floor of a walkup brownstone on West 188th..
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Six Embarrassing Moments
There are so many things we want to remember and can’t. And then there are the little episodes we’d like to forget that stay with..
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House Call
Pete Philipps — After a day of slashing rain, icy gusts swept in from the north, turning the rain to fast-falling snow that rapidly blanketed..
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Trash Panda
Don Stewart — Sometimes all it takes is the right suggestion, by the right person, at the right time. I was in the middle of..
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Guns, Again
Joan Holtzman — This is a reworking and updating of a piece I wrote about guns seven years ago, in 2015. Back then I was..
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The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe Published posthumously in 1849 in four stanzas (only stanzas III & IV quoted here) III Hear the loud alarum bells- Brazen bells!..
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Ukrainian Sunflowers and Russian Boots
“Here,” the old Ukrainian told her captor, “Put these seeds in your pockets, so flowers bloom where you fall.” This moving painting was created by..
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