It has been months since I put pen to paper for iPinionSyndicate and I can no longer blame COVID-19. At first, it was the societal restrictions which gave me good reason for a disturbance of routine and an excuse for a lack of productivity. Life...
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Friday evening, I was cooking dinner for my family when my husband came into the kitchen and said, “Ginsburg died.”  I froze. My heart sank. I was overwhelmed with a personal sense of loss and grief that rivaled what I felt when family members had...
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Henry F. Fradella Nineteen years ago today, I awoke in my home in Yardley, Pennsylvania and hurriedly got ready to head to work. It was a beautiful, crisp fall morning.  During my short, 15-minute drive to The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)’s campus, I thought about...
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During a campaign rally in my state of Michigan, nearly four years ago today, candidate Donald J. Dumbass directed a question to black voters. Was he offering a platform packed with promises to right the wrongs of racial injustice?
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I recently found out that a dear old friend of mine has white supremacist beliefs. He read a book that supports Hitler’s belief in a master race (although couched in more “scientific” terms) and as a blue-eyed blonde, my friend apparently had no problem believing...
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It seems inevitable that in any mass movement, the baby eventually flies out with the bathwater. No one saw the George Floyd killing coming and the scale of the protests afterwards. Overnight everyone, corporate America especially, seemed to rush to show how woke they were....
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Inspired by a friend Moke The front page of our newspaper here in Hawaii says: “Lucky you live in Paradise.” It’s a cliché, I know. But I do feel lucky to live here. Autumn in Hawaii doesn’t drum up remembrances of autumn leaves though, and...
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Out for summer Out till fall We might not come Back at all ~School’s Out, Alice Cooper, 1972 School’s out for summer and school districts all over the US are making plans for the fall. Our family is making plans too, and we won’t be...
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