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Category: In AppreciationBy Roberta Rosenberg on Nov 29, 2009 in In Appreciation, Just Thinking, Occasional Rantings | 5 Comments
It began with, “Mom, my knee hurts.”
That was this past April when my son came face-to-face with middle school physical education and a teacher who thought less than a 5-mile run every day made you a wuss. My husband, an aging jock, told him he needed time to get used to the running, sprints, etc. [...]
By Roberta Rosenberg on Aug 7, 2009 in In Appreciation | 0 Comments
I was well into my 30s when “Sixteen Candles” burst on the screen with John Hughes’s humor and deft handling of teenage angst. It remains a personal favorite of mine along with “Pretty in Pink” (the latter in large part to an amazingly hot, but sociopathological James Spader …
Okay, I’m back.
It’s already been [...]
By Roberta Rosenberg on Jul 18, 2009 in In Appreciation | 2 Comments
You have or will read a great deal about Walter Cronkite today.
How, for a generation, he was the most trusted man in America. How when he concluded each news broadcast with “And that’s the way it is …”, and how you believed it because our “Uncle Walter” told it to us like it was. Old [...]
By Roberta Rosenberg on May 13, 2009 in In Appreciation, Just Thinking, Language Arts | 2 Comments
Yesterday, President Obama proclaimed May as Jewish American Heritage Month. Woo-hoo, another nod of the collective good will to the minorities who live amongst us. You can read the full text here.
The read itself is nice, laudatory as these things go. But they really should have run the full text by Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff and [...]
