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Social Distancing #8: Be a Mask Monitor

Posted on July 1, 2020 by lisakwinkler

I’ve become that woman. The one who when seeing someone not wearing a mask while shopping, will call you out on it. I take my cue from Dr. Laura Popper, a  Manhattan pediatrician, who posted photos of maskless New Yorkers, … Continue reading →

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Knitting as Protest

Posted on January 19, 2019 by lisakwinkler

Frustrated with the delays in her daily train commute, Claudia Weber, an office clerk at a travel agency, returned home each evening and knit. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/world/europe/germany-train-delay-scarf.html And knit and knit and knit, each row representing the time lost on her way … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Heroes

Posted on October 6, 2018 by lisakwinkler

The distractions of current events keep us from celebrating true heroes. Over the past several days, the winners of the Nobel Prize have been named in fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, and peace. These individuals have dedicated their lives to the … Continue reading →

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Gun Control: WHEN?

Posted on June 30, 2018 by lisakwinkler

I’ve been fortunate to have worked in two professions: journalism and education. As a newspaper reporter in Danbury, CT, I covered local government: everything from elections to zoning meetings. I attended lengthy Board of Education meetings and would return to … Continue reading →

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Unfriend Facebook?

Posted on April 5, 2018 by lisakwinkler

In February I posted on Facebook that I was seriously considering pulling my pages. Disgusted with the reports of election hacking made more accessible via Facebook I felt enough was enough. Facebook friends encouraged me to stay. After all, it’s … Continue reading →

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OUTAGE OUTRAGE

Posted on March 9, 2018 by lisakwinkler

  Thundersnow?? Snow Bomb? We’ve had our share of winter extremes, the most recent, Winter Storm Quinn,  this past Wednesday, March 7. Just last Friday, March 2, we had an unnamed nor’easter. I was expecting friends for dinner and all … Continue reading →

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CVS Goes Big: Receipts, Stores & Anti-Smoking

Posted on July 9, 2015 by lisakwinkler

Often bigger isn’t necessarily better. Take CVS.  Even Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC late night show complained to President Barak Obama about the length of the drugstore’s receipts. In Katonah, New York, a bedroom suburb 45 miles north of New … Continue reading →

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Hugs: No Longer Free

Posted on March 29, 2015 by lisakwinkler

In the country where there’s a market for anything, hugs can now be bought. Not prostitution—that’s been around forever— but cuddles by a professional, at an hourly rate.  The NJ Star Ledger  wrote about how the industry has taken off in … Continue reading →

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New Health Studies: Coffee & Nuts = Long Life

Posted on November 29, 2013 by lisakwinkler

Recent health studies indicate that drinking coffee helps small blood vessels work better and eating more nuts ensures a longer life. The coffee one, conducted by a Japanese cardiologist, had non-coffee drinkers imbibe 5 ounces of  caffeinated coffee –  (a Starbucks … Continue reading →

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Overstating the Obvious: Naps, Bedtimes & Chekhov

Posted on October 15, 2013 by lisakwinkler

I accompanied my son Jacob to pick up his two kids from preschool the other day. On the walk home, we asked them what they did in school. Meira, 2, offered that she napped. That seemed the highlight or at … Continue reading →

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