My husband and I are no longer COVID virgins. A two-week bout with COVID, from which we're just emerging, left me feeling disinclined to write but very much inclined to seek comfort in reading. Fiction was the best of all because it distracted me from anxieties about two of our grandchildren studying at different schools …
Month: October 2023
House mess Democrats’ fault? Give me a break!
In a recent surreal interview, ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the Democrats for the chaos in the House of Representatives. (He wasn't the only GOP official trying to sell that bill of goods.) The public isn't buying it. Let's be clear. McCarthy lost his Speakership because his transactional style of acquiring and maintaining power made …
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Confronting crises at home and abroad
Did W. B. Yeats have it right? "Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Such are one's fears today. The United States government is a two-legged stool. Israel is at war, and I haven't been able to reach either of my two …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 