How funny and strange to see people who seem to have walked out of a different century. Today, I stopped for a woman at a crosswalk in a...

Her name was Emmy. I know little about her. She was my great aunt, the older sister of my grandfather Karl. I never met him either, since...

In July 2021, I wrote a blog about a conspiracy of silence among therapists of the 1970's through the 1980's. I questioned why my unusual...

The clock to save our planet is running down. Your time on the planet has always been limited. Now that we are older, we visualize an end...

After the Kabbalat Shabbat, the young woman bolstered her courage and stepped up to the rabbi, “The music inspires me more than the...

My friend, Susan, who died in 2017, much too young from cancer, would speak out. Recently, I watched a documentary about Julius Rosenwald...

On Thursday night, I noticed a striking picture on Twitter from @unequalscenes. The photo of a man riding a bike on a flooded street in...

Recently, I engaged in another frustrating interchange with a relative about the COVID-19 vaccine. She is polar opposite to me on a...

" "Conspiracy of Silence" is a term I have heard, though I am not sure of the where or who? Googling the phrase revealed that the words...

I read stories about refugees stranded in Mexico, attempting to enter the United States legally. These are women, children, and men...

I came across the name Cohany today. The person whose last name is Cohany is Jewish, but I thought, mm, sounds Irish too. What's with...

Owners look like their dogs and vice versa. Dogs and their keepers adapt to one another, so their appearances bear a resemblance. I saw...

High time that people are educated about speech and language. As is my usual stance, I am baffled that Americans remain misinformed....

What a stupid, stupid phrase. Be Best what? Be the best person you can be is probably what someone in Melania Trump's circle was...

December 2019 Our group completed an arduous tour of the Majdanek Labor/Death Camp in Lublin, Poland. Among all of the Holocaust sites...

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Racism has been with humankind for centuries. Americans focus on our sin of slavery. After slavery was abolished, a more subtle form of...

Challenging, New, Fresh, Comprehensive--How To Be An Antiracist(Audiobooks version),by Ibram Kendi, encompasses those qualities....

Odd as it seems, my sister, brother, and I embarked on a transcontinental rail trip, with our parents, in August 1968. The train conveyed...