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Delayed Tribute to Gary David Goldberg, Father of my Childhood Best Friend and Beloved Creator of Family Ties and Spin City

Gary David Goldberg was what the hippie movement was supposed to be. Before it all got corrupted by drugs, greed, and bad fashion the point was to spread compassion, understanding, love for one another, and place the human spirit over … Continue reading

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Victorian Chick’s Childhood Among the “Beautiful People” and Lifelong Reverence of Beauty in all its Forms

Just about any beautiful woman could become a professional beauty–not through success at court, but in the emerging celebrity culture associated with illustrated  periodicals and mass-circulated photographs. The professional beauty needed not be rich, highly born, nor well educated–provided she … Continue reading

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Happiness, Gratitude for FB Friends, Dominican Republic in 2010, Ireland in 1994, Reflection on Motherhood

I am so happy. Not a day here or there. Day in and day out, I love my life. I have said before on the blog(s), and many times on FB, how much FB has transformed my existence on a … Continue reading

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Sweet, Funny Inconsequential Movie from 1984: Gotcha, The Last Seduction Meditation re Gender Roles, Woody Allen’s Alice and Blythe Danner

Just a silly shortish note, inspired when I went to Soho, a club in Santa Barbara, for a Christmas rock-and-roll show, at which a friend of my friend’s was singing. J had work to do and never made it and … Continue reading

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