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Continue reading →: It’s Mourning in America
If you are among those conservative folks who simultaneously believes that abortion—even in the first trimester—is murder, and you also happen to be in favor of the death penalty, I hope you’ll be ready to start executing women and doctors who defy your celebration of today’s US Supreme Court ruling,…
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Continue reading →: Ski Visits II
The “Ski Visits” continue! My sister Elizabeth “Ms. Ski” Sciabarra and I wanted to extend our love and appreciation to two very dear friends—who stopped by today to say “Hi” and spread cheer: Rose De Pinto and Barbara Esmilla. (L-R) Rose De Pinto, Elizabeth Sciabarra, Barbara Esmilla Postscript (15 July…
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Continue reading →: The Seventh Annual Summer Music Festival (Edible Edition) / Song of the Day #1950
At 5:14 am (ET) today, June 21, 2022, the Summer Solstice arrived in the Northern hemisphere. And that means I begin my Seventh Annual Summer Music Festival (Edible Edition). All the songs I’ve picked for this year’s festival reference fruits, blossoms, wines, pies, and so forth, to give us a…
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Continue reading →: Jim Peron’s “City Limits”
Having finished Jim Peron’s novel, City Limits, I sent him this blurb, and hope folks will check out the book! It can be purchased here. Jim Peron has gifted us City Limits—a novel rich in characterization, adventure, charade, and humor, which takes us from a rural Kansas town to the…
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Continue reading →: Ski Trip to Celebrate Aunt Mary 100!
With the amazing assistance of a terrific ambulette company, my sister, Elizabeth (“Ms. Ski”) Sciabarra, took her first trip out of the house since October 2021—to see our Aunt Mary, who celebrated her 100th birthday today. My Aunt Mary is my sister’s godmother. Aunt Mary is accustomed to saying she’s…
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Continue reading →: JARS: New July 2022 Issue!
The July 2022 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Volume 22, Number 1) will be making its debut on the Scholarly Publishing Collective soon—and will be on the way to print subscribers thereafter. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Merlin Jetton (1946-2022), who contributed seven essays…
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Continue reading →: The Theft of the Commons
An extraordinary article, “The Theft of the Commons,” by Eula Biss, was published two days ago, on 8 June 2022. Extraordinary—not because nobody has ever discussed this topic before, but because it actually appeared in The New Yorker (H/T to my dear friend Walter Grinder for bringing this article to…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1948 & 1949
Songs of the Day: This Track is a Planet Killer / Milky [YouTube links] are two songs composed by Soy. (to appear on their upcoming album “Johnathan”), with my dear friend Eric Fleischmann on vocals. The starkly different tracks, which follow one another, are united as part of a live…
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Continue reading →: Ski Visits
If ever there was a need to lift Ski’s spirits, this was the week. My sister, Elizabeth Sciabarra, was visited by her long-time colleague and dear friend, Matt Mandery and her two godchildren, Genevieve Teresa Gonzales and Sara Gonzales-Thomas—who is on her way to Boston as part of the cast…
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Continue reading →: Ski and Sue
Yesterday, we learned of the passing of a very dear friend, Sue Mayham (1958-2022). A graduate of the class of 1976 from Brooklyn Technical High School, Sue first met my sister, Elizabeth Sciabarra (Ms. Ski), in the early 70s when my sister asked her to start the Twirlers as part…
