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Conception, Contraception Revisited
Forty years ago I wrote a young adult book entitled Conception, Contraception: A New Look. It details the miracle of conception and explores humanity’s millennia-long search to understand its mystery. The book was also meant to alert young readers to … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, anton von leeuwenhoek, birth control, conception contraception, contraception, feminism, guttmacher institute, karl ernst von baer, margaret sanger, overpopulation, planned parenthood, pro-choice, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, reproductive rights movement, right to choose, roe v wade, thomas malthus, women's rights
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The Rebirth of the River Cafe
When Hurricane Sandy barreled down on New York City’s waterfront, it destroyed the River Café. After it hit the moored barge, the storm carried away the Cafe’s stash of priceless wines, plants, rattan chairs, mirrors, pots and pans. Whatever was … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, brad steelman, brooklyn, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn heights, buzzy o'keeffe, dining out, dumbo, family, fine dining, food, foodies, freedom tower, hurricane sandy, michael buzzy o'keeffe, new york city, nyc restaurants, restaurant reviews, restaurants, river cafe, twin towers, windows on the world
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At the Mercy of Strangers: The Book That Keeps Giving
Like many teenagers, I kept a diary. In flowery prose I bemoaned my unrequited love for an older married man. I cherished leftist views of the world and a bombastic philosophy to match. I saw myself as a useless bystander … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, adult education, at the mercy of strangers, authors, german jews, hidden children, high school equivalency, holocaust, hse, john milton, judaism, memoir writing, memoirs, nazi germany, teenagers, teens, the writer's life, turning point, turning point education center, world war ii, writing, writing a book
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Radiant Light: The Ancestors of Christ at the Cloisters
To help The Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrate its seventy-fifth birthday, Canterbury Cathedral, founded in 597 CE, lent it six stained glass panels from its Ancestors of Christ Cycle, dating from 1178 CE. They will … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey of saint germain des pres, american art, ancestors of christ, art, art museums, canterbury cathedral, childebert, james t. hubbell, king childebert, lamech, medieval art, medieval stained glass windows, methuselah, metropolitan museum of art, mosaics, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, radiant light, riverside church, saint vincent, saint vincent of saragossa, stained glass, stained glass windows, the cloisters, union church in pocantico hills
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Peter’s Hat
I am a clotheshorse from way back. I fondly remember the smoked yellow silk dress I wore, age seven, to my cousin’s bar mitzvah. I recall a hand-me-down lace dress that did not suit my style when I was eight, … Continue reading
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Operas, operettas, and musicals, all of which are a combination of songs, music, dance and dialogue, are an essential form of theatrical entertainment. Successful opera composers, including Verdi, Mozart, and Wagner, became folk heroes, as did their American descendants including … Continue reading
In 1970 or so my husband and I went to B. Altman, the venerable Fifth Avenue department store, to view remarkably inexpensive sculptures assembled from old farm implements designed by William Heise, a sculptor from Vermont. It was rather early on … Continue reading
Kandinsky and His Kaleidoscope of Colors
One of the pictures that decorated my bedroom way back in Hanover, Germany, was a concentric blue and black circle accompanied by triangles, squares, and straight and wiggly lines that look like the mast of a sailboat. Much later I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1913 armory show, bauhaus, blaue reiter, blue rider group, composition v, franz marc, german expressionism, great blue horses, jewish museum, kandinsky, marc chagall, modern art, neue galerie, new york city, nyc museums, the armory show, vasily kandinsky, walker art center
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Viva
My apologies for having neglected my Branching: Thoughts of an Ever Curious Author readership during the past five months. There were many good and bad reasons: reconstruction of my Brooklyn apartment, a new book idea that did not yet gel, … Continue reading
Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 