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Make Coal Great Again
How do we make America great again? Burn, baby, burn! Yes, it’s time to make coal great again! Wave a white flag; we are ending the long war on coal. Though of course the next time we wave a flag in...
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Dementia, The Donald, and My Dad
“But I don’t want to go among Mad People, Alice remarked.” Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland For the past few months it has felt as though I had joined Alice falling through the rabbit hole. Ever since...
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Baby, What a Tan
“Turn on a tan, you great big beautiful baby you!” Summer and tanning is deeply burned into me…literally. Though I no longer sport the deeply burnished Bain de Soliel St. Tropez tan of my twenties nor...
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Just Say No
Are we turning the youth of America into hard-core addicts?(R) “Assassin of Youth” was a 1937 propaganda film showing the ill effects of marijuana. The title was “borrowed from an article written by...
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Traumatic Memory – Remembering What Was Forgotten
I am very pleased to be part of a provocative national exhibit entitled “A Series of Fragments of Moments” opening in San Francisco on Saturday, November 11, 2017. I will be speaking at the artists...
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How to Survive a Nuclear Attack 1950’s Style
As the world teeters closer to the brink of nuclear war, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention holds a briefing today on how the public can prepare for a nuclear bomb. It’s duck and cover...
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Donald Scores a Gold Star
The real cognitive Test Trump took during his health exam. Donald gets a gold star when it comes to his cognitive ability and I have the proof. “Nobody gets more gold stars than I do, believe me,”...
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Remembrances of Flu Epidemics Pasts
Flu season sends chills through me. Literally As the U.S. finds itself in the worst flu epidemic in years, I am chillingly reminded of flu epidemics past. Scary tales of the devastating flu epidemic...
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Remembrance of Flu Epidemics Past Pt II
Just like today, in the cold winter of 1957 the war against the flu raged. The dreaded Asiatic Flu that was spreading through the country, hit my own mother hard. The flu was on the march and health...
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Memories Coming Out of Mothballs
For some, the sweet perfume of lilacs drifting through open screened windows evoke spring. For me springtime can be conjured up with the toxic smell of mothballs. These past many months as I have been...
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If the Shoe Fits
Like clockwork, Labor Day once signaled the changing of the guard at least as far as mid cenetury shoes were concerned. The Tuesday after Labor Day one would be hard pressed to find the sight of white...
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Another September 11… Miss America
September 11th is a date indelible in America’s collective consciousness. But the date shares another less remembered benchmark, one whose impact is still felt today. In 1954, September 11th was the...
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A Healthy Tan?
Once upon a time, a deep dark tan was the gold standard of a successful summer run. When it came to getting a gold medal for the best bronze I was always a winner. In full disclosure, I am still one...
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Traumatic Memory- Remembering What We Want to Forget
The GOP cite a “gap” problem in the Kavanaugh scandal, when the real problem is the GOP. Both Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez amd Julie Swetnick report gaps in their memory of their traumatic...
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Is Trump a Baby?
President Trump pouts on 60 Minutes insisting he’s no baby. Evidence points to the contrary. Although Donald has officially entered the terrible twos, in many ways he has not progressed much from...
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Parkland Shooting Tragedy – The After Shocks
Not all wounds are visible. The trauma the children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experienced did not end with the last bullet fired on that ghastly day in Parkland. That’s when it begins....
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Abortion Before Roe v Wade Risky Business
I came late to the game watching Handmaid’s Tale, having only recently begun binging it. A totalitarian society that strips away a woman’s physical autonomy and reproductive rights in the former...
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Art and Brain Disorders – Art Show
I am honored to be participating in a timely symposium “The Integration of Art, Science, and Medicine” at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. My piece on PTSD and Traumatic Memory...
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The Deplorable Stain of the Detention Camps
There is a stench in America; a foul stain so deep on our country no amount of soap can wash it away. The noxious stink emanating from our southern border is less from the unsanitary camps holding...
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Betty -a Bastille Day Jazz Age Baby
In 1926 while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty, my mother. A...
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