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While I am far from woke, I really want to learn.
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As a child, I remember being told, “go to bed.” This meant brush your teeth and use the bathroom. Whether or not my parents read to me is a lost memory. If I had trouble falling asleep, the remedy was a glass of warm milk. The first actual bedtime rituals I remember were for my…
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On May 10, 1933, university students burned more than 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square (pictured below). 40,000 people gathered to hear Nazi chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, make a speech in which he said, “No to decadence and moral corruption!” Sound familiar? This past January, the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee…
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My eyes were dark brown, but the Hollywood ideal was a blue-eyed blond. Thus, I pondered what I could do to make myself more attractive in the eye department.
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You Better Shop Around and Ten Other Useful Bits of Advice
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Who would spend $1,000 on a serving for four of plastic dishes and mugs adorned with a photo of the class guinea pig, Buster?
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The current Ukrainian refugee crisis reminds me that my grandparents were refugees who left their families and the only homes they had known to come to America in the beginning of the 20th century.
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As Yogi Berra supposedly said, “It's déjà vu all over again.”
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There was something about cramming into a small booth that made the old photo booths special.
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Of all of the cheap places we stayed when my husband and I took an eight-week trip to Europe and Israel, Victor Mattace’s pensione was the worst.
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Not Woke But Trying
Prompted By Mind the Gap
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Bedtime Rituals
Prompted By Sleepy Time
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Maus
Prompted By Banned Books
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Sheyn Aoygn (Pretty Eyes)
Prompted By The Eyes Have It
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My Mama Told Me …
Prompted By What My Mother Told Me
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Buster Ware
Prompted By Auctions and Raffles
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Granddaughter of Refugees
Prompted By Refugees
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Groundhog Day
Prompted By Pandemic, Year Three
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The Best Pictures Ever
Prompted By Photo Booths
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Cheap Lodgings
Prompted By Hotels, Motels, Inns, and Hostels
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