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How America got some bad liquor

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Phyllis Alberici

THE NEWS these days reminds me of the scene in It’s A Wonderful Life when George can’t figure out what the hell just happened to his life. “Look, I got some bad liquor or something.” You got that right, George. … Continue reading →

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D Day, June 6, 1944

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Phyllis Alberici

It’s 79 years since Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches: Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, Sword. 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline determined to break Hitler’s hold on Europe. 9,000 died or were wounded … Continue reading →

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Which thing is not like the other?

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Phyllis Alberici

There are times when cynicism gets the best of me. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any nuttier, voters south of me in New York elected a shape shifter. Enter George Santos. Or is it? More than one politician … Continue reading →

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June 6, 1944: The Grand Purpose

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Phyllis Alberici

It’s June 6, 1944. America still sleeps but will soon wake to the news that Allied forces have landed across a fifty mile swath of beach in a place called Normandy, on the northwest coast of France. D Day and … Continue reading →

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A front row seat at the Pearly Gates: 2018 is coming

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Phyllis Alberici

Elizabeth Warren was right on when she said she hoped that Republicans would donate their bodies to science so that, when they were cut open, we could end the speculation about whether or not they have a heart. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Miss Manners, you’re our only hope

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Phyllis Alberici

Before we start tossing around words like “bunker mentality,” let’s review some recent encounters with my fellow homo sapiens. Last Thursday, crawling out of my rural farmhouse for supplies, I must have driven over a nest of pick up trucks, … Continue reading →

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One More for the Road

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

Writing stories about a place in a quieter corner of the map may (or may not) be fiction but it takes me to a place where life may be weird but at least no one is driving drunk. Explain something … Continue reading →

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