Author Archives: Suzanne Loebl

Maine 2016: Almost Farewell

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

This morning I am sad. I just kissed Naomi—Branching’s editor—farewell. She was here visiting for a week at our small “camp” on Echo Lake. We did all the traditional summer things: a hike up Penobscot, popovers and Jordan Pond, dinner … Continue reading →

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Refugee, But Not Forever

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

The other evening, after a satisfying dinner, I was lazily surfing the net when I came across a photo of a beach filled with Syrian refugees running across the sand, trying to climb aboard a rickety ship. Suddenly my heart … Continue reading →

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Need Cheering Up? Go See Stuart Davis at the Whitney Museum of Art

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

Want to forget Brexit, Trump, and the rest of the long, dark list of summer events that seems to be lengthening by the day? Go to the still sparklingly new Whitney Museum of American Art and immerse yourself in the … Continue reading →

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The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

Two very different women, the socially striving Arabella Worsham and the retiring Laura Spelman Rockefeller, occupied the lavish Gilded Age dressing room that joined the period rooms in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in … Continue reading →

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Doing it all over again?

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

According to Facebook, I have a birthday coming up, and it is high time for me to locate that the magic mill that I read about when I was an eight-year-old way back in Germany. *** THE MAGIC MILL Adapted … Continue reading →

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Trump and the Bully Pulpit

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) As of today, Donald Trump has won a virtually unobstructed path to the Republican nomination. The grandstanding and uncouth utterances of the Republican campaign over the last few months remind me of the tirades … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged adolf hitler, donald trump, election, election 2016, fascism, hitler, holocaust, nazi germany, nazis, nazism, politics, presidential election, republican party, republicans, trump, world war ii, world war ii history | 1 Comment

Pergamon, and my Belgian History Teacher, Come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

As soon as I entered the Met Museum’s magnificent survey of Hellenistic Art (Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, April 18-June 17, 2016) the voice of Miss Feytmans, who taught at my high school some 75 years … Continue reading →

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The Only Common Sense Solution to America’s Gun Problem

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

“Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie.” “A life has no value, but nothing is as valuable as a life.” Thus wrote Andre Malraux, the great novelist, in 1933. In the United States, Malraux is best … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged democrats, gun control, gun control debate, gun control laws, gun laws, guns, politics, republicans, san bernardino, sandy hook | 3 Comments

Farewell to Frank Hatch

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Suzanne Loebl

On Sunday, January 10th, my computer screen flashed. Caring Bridges, a site that provides health news to family and friends, let me know that Frank had died. I had spoken to Frank a few weeks earlier on his birthday. He had … Continue reading →

Posted in family stories | Tagged aids, AIDS epidemic, david, family, family stories, family story, gay, gay children, gay community, HIV, hiv/aids, lgbt, lgbtq, parents of gay children, parents of lgbt children, straight allies | 6 Comments

Christmas Windows in New York Never Disappoint

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

To momentarily forget the massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, the insane arsenals amassed by my fellow citizens, the irresponsible rhetoric of those who spend billions in their bid to become the president of the U.S.A…. I took myself to … Continue reading →

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