Monday Musings

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July 21, 2025 - we'll be taking a break!

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I am feeling vindicated today so watch out. I heard an interview with Alice Walker the other day and the interviewer referred to her relationship with another female writer and used the term “you guys”. Walker stopped him cold. She said, “I don’t like to be referred to as a guy.” The interviewer apologized and said he was not even aware he had used that phrase. “Most people aren’t.” she said.

Newsflash - I have been saying this for years!

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I am feeling vindicated today so watch out. I heard an interview with Alice Walker the other day and the interviewer referred to her relationship with another female writer and used the term “you guys”. Walker stopped him cold. She said, “I don’t like to be referred to as a guy.” The interviewer apologized and said he was not even aware he had used that phrase. “Most people aren’t.” she said.

Newsflash - I have been saying this for years!

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Our collective batteries need charging. Do something that makes you happy. Sounds silly but happiness is contagious and builds strong bones 12 ways. Happiness is better than Wonder Bread.

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Our collective batteries need charging. Do something that makes you happy. Sounds silly but happiness is contagious and builds strong bones 12 ways. Happiness is better than Wonder Bread.

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So now that our New York City primary season is over we are faced with another enormous decision – what to do with all the political fliers we got shoved into our mailboxes over the past few weeks.

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So now that our New York City primary season is over we are faced with another enormous decision – what to do with all the political fliers we got shoved into our mailboxes over the past few weeks.

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Hot enough for ya? That’s what we used to say to each other back in the day. That was all you could say because nobody HAD air conditioning.

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Hot enough for ya? That’s what we used to say to each other back in the day. That was all you could say because nobody HAD air conditioning.

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Let's play hooky! ALL OF US!

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Let's play hooky! ALL OF US!

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WHY people are missing shows is their business, but the people who step into their shoes deserve more than a pat on the back and a “thank you so much.” They deserve recognition and a big fat award. Come on American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Belly up to the bar. Tonys for Understudies.

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WHY people are missing shows is their business, but the people who step into their shoes deserve more than a pat on the back and a “thank you so much.” They deserve recognition and a big fat award. Come on American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Belly up to the bar. Tonys for Understudies.

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On Memorial Day my father picked peopnies from his mother's garden and drove them and us to the cemetery.

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On Memorial Day my father picked peopnies from his mother's garden and drove them and us to the cemetery.

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As Thomas Wolfe said, “One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” In this case that would be nearly 50 years.

What’s your story?

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As Thomas Wolfe said, “One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” In this case that would be nearly 50 years.

What’s your story?

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The Shortstop is the one to keep your eyes on because the shortstop has one foot in the present and one in the future and one in the past.

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The Shortstop is the one to keep your eyes on because the shortstop has one foot in the present and one in the future and one in the past.

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May 12, 2025

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May 12, 2025

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I was not raised to be hopeful. I was raised to be Catholic. We were an Irish Catholic family, unless you count my dad who was Methodist but not showy about it. He and my mother were married in the 1940’s when mixed religion marriages were frowned upon. That being accomplished there not much to discuss, philosophically speaking. He was a Christian. We were Christians. Not much difference in Point of View except that my Dad’s God didn’t care whether or not my Dad went to church. Our Catholic God, on the other hand, was a bit of nit...

I was not raised to be hopeful. I was raised to be Catholic. We were an Irish Catholic family, unless you count my dad who was Methodist but not showy about it. He and my mother were married in the 1940’s when mixed religion marriages were frowned upon. That being accomplished there not much to discuss, philosophically speaking. He was a Christian. We were Christians. Not much difference in Point of View except that my Dad’s God didn’t care whether or not my Dad went to church. Our Catholic God, on the other hand, was a bit of nit...

It is the season of the peepers. In high school the peepers came in partnership with the spring concert for which we rehearsed weeks and weeks in advance. Everyone who wanted to get in GOT in. Music was a leveling agent. “Here are the notes. Sing them.” And if you weren’t so good at it, the teacher put you next to someone who was so you could get a leg up.

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It is the season of the peepers. In high school the peepers came in partnership with the spring concert for which we rehearsed weeks and weeks in advance. Everyone who wanted to get in GOT in. Music was a leveling agent. “Here are the notes. Sing them.” And if you weren’t so good at it, the teacher put you next to someone who was so you could get a leg up.

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“The Ten Commandments,” THE MOVIE. I was six years old and I had it bad for Charlton Heston. Seriously who wouldn’t? His hair turned from short and dark to majestic and long and grey then white and WAVY. Heston was buffed and spent a lot of time without a shirt. He was also tan and righteous. What 6 year old girl could resist that.

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“The Ten Commandments,” THE MOVIE. I was six years old and I had it bad for Charlton Heston. Seriously who wouldn’t? His hair turned from short and dark to majestic and long and grey then white and WAVY. Heston was buffed and spent a lot of time without a shirt. He was also tan and righteous. What 6 year old girl could resist that.

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...this epidemic of good deeds and dispositions was out of my control. I put down my book and watched as the Samaritans began to multiply out on the street. A pizza guy stopped to hold a door open. A woman stood still while her dog said hello to a puppy. A man on his phone paused his call and executed a tiny soccer move to stop something rolling down the street being chased by a panicked teenager....

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...this epidemic of good deeds and dispositions was out of my control. I put down my book and watched as the Samaritans began to multiply out on the street. A pizza guy stopped to hold a door open. A woman stood still while her dog said hello to a puppy. A man on his phone paused his call and executed a tiny soccer move to stop something rolling down the street being chased by a panicked teenager....

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...We will not be driven byfear into an age of unreason... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty..." Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954

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...We will not be driven byfear into an age of unreason... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty..." Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954

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My father was born on April Fool’s Day. Once I was old enough to understand the ramifications of that I imagined the doctor telling my grandfather he had a son and wondered if Grampy might have asked if this was an April Fool’s joke.

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My father was born on April Fool’s Day. Once I was old enough to understand the ramifications of that I imagined the doctor telling my grandfather he had a son and wondered if Grampy might have asked if this was an April Fool’s joke.

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what happens every single time I take a power walk in my neighborhood park is this is: I come home feeling better. Even if I don’t want to.

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what happens every single time I take a power walk in my neighborhood park is this is: I come home feeling better. Even if I don’t want to.

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"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Only engage and the mind grows heated; begin and then the task will be completed.

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"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Only engage and the mind grows heated; begin and then the task will be completed.

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I don’t know about you but this year Daylight Savings nonsense has knocked me ass-over-teakettle. I was never phased by this before.

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I don’t know about you but this year Daylight Savings nonsense has knocked me ass-over-teakettle. I was never phased by this before.

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