My husband’s father was 14 and living in New York during the pandemic of 1918, sometimes known as the Spanish flu. He must have had memories of the time; surely he knew people who died in Brooklyn, where he lived.
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4/15/21
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I married an older man, and this week he’s turning 75. When we met, I was 14 and he was 15.
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4/8/21
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While many humans are still waiting in lines for the Covid-19 vaccine, an unusual initiative has put our four-legged friends at the head of the pack.
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4/1/21
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March 2021: embracing the change. Covid-19 isn’t something that has just afflicted us; it changed us in ways that are irreversible.
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3/25/21
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I didn’t tune in to the news at all yesterday, and that was a happy change from one year ago, when . . .
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3/18/21
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America has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories. Some social scientists say that the conspiracy world began to flourish with the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
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3/11/21
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Oddly, the most offensive remark made by a politician lately (and there are a lot to choose from) came from Marjorie Taylor Greene last month . . .
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3/4/21
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I admired Gov. Mario Cuomo so much that I actually bought an old CD of his speeches some years ago, and I actually listened to them. So I am educated in the successes and rhetorical and political skills of the Cuomo boys.
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2/25/21
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This column is back by popular demand. Well, in truth, only one reader, shivering through the freezing weather, remembered that I once wrote about winter soups, and asked me to do another one.
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2/18/21
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We need to let teachers play through the vaccine line. Single parents should be prioritized as well.
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2/11/21
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