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The Wish Ring

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

Once upon a time I wrote an illustrated children’s book called The Wish Ring. It is the story of Hans, who finds a magic ring with a single wish. A wily goldsmith manages to substitute an ordinary ring for Hans’ … Continue reading →

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Updates

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

Sorry that I have not been blogging in such a long time, but I have been busy with the Rockefellers. First of all, JP Morgan selected America’s Medicis as one of its choices for its 11th Summer Reading List. I also … Continue reading →

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Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

Now that the excitement of the publication of America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Cultural Legacy is receding, my existence has returned to the day-to-day dullness that often dominates a writer’s life. So I was excited when I received a … Continue reading →

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Liberators and Protectors

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

“THE GERMANS PROTECT US…THE ENGLISH LIBERATE US…MAY GOD PROTECT US FROM OUR LIBERATORS AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR PROTECTORS.” This little ditty came to my mind last week when I learned that the “Allies” bombed Libya to protect the population … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday David!

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

On February 19th my son would have been fifty-five years old. I can’t believe that by now he would be a middle-aged man. Eighteen years ago when we celebrated his thirty-seventh birthday he was a strikingly handsome man, trying to … Continue reading →

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Busman’s Holiday: Revisiting MoMA

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

“Look,” I told my friend Rochelle, with whom I was spending the afternoon at MoMA, “this was Nelson Rockefeller’s gift to the museum on its twenty-fifth birthday.” We were looking at Henri Rousseau’s The Dream, a surrealistic painting in which a … Continue reading →

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The Internet Drives Me Nuts!

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

I spent most of my morning navigating the net. You may think that I spent my time doing in-depth research on a new topic for my next book, or reading the newspaper, or gloating over the latest scandal. No, I … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2010

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Suzanne Loebl

I had a perfectly good Christmas Eve. My husband and I went to see Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a troupe of talented men who dance on toes and perform spectacular ballets with just enough of a comic edge … Continue reading →

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Museum of the American Indian

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Suzanne Loebl

During the thirty-nine years I lived on Riverside Drive and 156th Street, I overlooked the Audubon Terrace, the common front yard of a series of small museums. In 1839, James Audubon acquired a large tract of land and built a … Continue reading →

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Branching

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Suzanne Loebl

The world has changed and so has writing, in times past conceived in the privacy of the heart and soul. Many writers, I presume, tossed their musings in the garbage. Others, like Emily Dickinson, kept them locked in a trunk … Continue reading →

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