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Remembering the rules for the family clothesline
“Mom’s Clothesline Regulations,” stated the social media publishing, pinpointing the age array of the associates of the team web site that posted the listing by figuring out that page’s title. “Sock Hops and Doo-Wops,” was that moniker. By the way, “Socks need to be hung by their toes,” according to a person of mom’s initial principles. “Boy this provides back again memories,” commented the individual re-publishing the listing on her social media web page, a classmate from my hometown in western New York. She additional a deep crimson coronary heart emoji ahead of describing, “Miss you so much Mother.” And, in fact, the listing of clothing-hanging mandates attributed to mothers of…
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Remembering Seattle print artist and muralist Kristen Ramirez
Shortly after, Ramirez’s mental well being deteriorated. Her spouse, her ex-spouse and numerous of the buddies I spoke with feel her sudden despair and anxiety was connected to the onset of perimenopause, the time of lifetime when hormones start out to change substantially, primary up to menopause. Signs can be significant, equally bodily and psychologically, and can manifest in various approaches for up to 10 decades (by way of illustration, I am at this time in my eighth 12 months of various symptoms). It’s a standard portion of growing old, still there nonetheless isn’t substantially health-related information about it — and the topic stays taboo, even among the women of…
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MUSIC: Remembering John Lennon | Local News
I know there has been very a little bit of dying in my column recently. Regrettably, I am going to insert a little bit much more to it. A bit a lot more than 41 decades ago, Beatle founder and audio legend John Lennon was shot by a crazed fan outside his New York Town condominium. Dec. 8 just lately handed which marked the 41st anniversary of his loss of life. I have by no means generally been a enormous fan of the Beatles (even though I have four of their albums on reprinted vinyl) I have excellent respect for what they did for pop and rock songs. I figured…
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Remembering Ed Bullins, Leading Playwright of the Black Arts Movement
Friends and colleagues of Ed Bullins, a leading Black playwright of the 1960s, whose work helped shape a protest movement within the theater centered on the African American experience, remember the former Northeastern University professor as gentle, warm, and restlessly prolific. Bullins passed away on Nov. 13 from complications of dementia. He was 86. “I found him to be very warm,” says Richard O’Bryant, the head of Northeastern’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. “He came from the ’60s and was a product of the civil rights movement. Of course, they carried that struggle on their sleeve, and he very much enjoyed talking about it.” O’Bryant says Bullins was deeply…