Bizarre Homage To A Queen: The Story of Ines’ de Castro The elaborately carved sarcophagus shown above belongs to an ancient Queen. Her given name was Ines’ de Castro, and she lived in Coimbra, Portugal. But her story is as bizarre as anything you’ll ever read. She wasn’t always allowed to slumber so peacefully as […]
… damned if you do and damned if you don’t! The phrase above is used to say that you cannot escape being criticized, whatever you do. This is the story of my life in my early days of being wife, mother, factory worker, cashier, member of the Women’s Army Corps, and how it all came about. 1968, Me and the Vietnam War […]
Photo Courtesy of Judy Schweitzer I’ve always loved Minestrone. The word is Italian and describes itself perfectly: “thick soup.” I like it as an appetizer when it’s the traditional lighter vegetable soup. If I want it for a full meal, I like to add little meat balls to it which makes it more hearty. So […]
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Judy Schweitzer Bitter Tears by Johnny Cash In the 1970s, Johnny Cash’s interest and compassion for the stories of the American Indian (as they were called in that era) grew, as the public became more aware of an activist group known as AIM ( American Indian Movement). Johnny recorded an album […]
Photo Credit Easy Three-Corn Casserole This recipe is not your usual corn casserole recipe, because it contains corn in three different forms. Not only that, but it also gives you options for other ingredients you might want to add, depending on what your taste buds are yearning for on that day. The first time I […]
In The Beginning There Was Francis… Francis Albert Sinatra, born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement in Hoboken, New Jersey, would grow up to be a force to be reckoned with in America’s music industry. No one knew that yet and his birth certainly didn’t signify that kind of success. He weighed […]
What’s The Secret of Soylent Green? New York City, 2022 “Soylent Green ” is a science fiction movie about OUR world, New York City in particular, in the year 2022. There are 40,000,000 (that’s forty-million!) people living there, in stairways, sidewalks, anywhere they can find room to sit or lie down. In addition, the “greenhouse […]
Photo Credit Bessie Smith ~ Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith would have been the first one to laugh at the title “Empress of the Blues.” Not because she didn’t think she deserved it, but because her childhood and upbringing had accustomed her not to expect much. She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on a date […]
Photo Credit Send A Card To A Friend Day, February 7th February is a month of many kinds of celebrations: Black History Month, Great American Pie Month, Valentine’s Day, National Cherry Month, among others. But there’s one special day devoted to the love between friends, and that’s Send A Card To A Friend Day on […]
