News Squib#8 – Last Words (Hopefully) on Tiny Hands Trump


Candidate Donald Trump speaks at press conference
It’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Why I’ll Never Eat Lunch at  Mar-A-Lago Again

In the seventeen months since we witnessed Trump’s glide down the Trump Tower escalator and his announcement that he was running for President of the United States, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of words have been written about the man who still might possibly become the next occupant of  the White House.

img_0241 Here is but a meager smattering of my pithy favorites from the last couple of months together with photos I took at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-A-Lago, on my last visit  (as in: I will probably never again be invited, and, even if invited, probably will not go.) I was there with teammates to play the Mar-a-Lago tennis team — and for a buffet lunch (Trump’s team won;  lunch was “amazing”, “beautiful,” “terrific.” ) Continue reading “News Squib#8 – Last Words (Hopefully) on Tiny Hands Trump”

News Squib#7- Happy 80th Birthday, Joe

img_0475It’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Best Husband in the World Turns 80

 

I didn’t need to read anything to find fodder for this week’s squib. It happened right in front of my eyes. My wonderful, loving, generous husband, Joe turned 80 . He was not yet 50 years old when we met. Just 51 when we married. He was 52 when he became a father for the fourth time — to our son, Daniel.

How wonderful is he? Well, I have a friend who has known us as a couple for more than 20 years. To paraphrase what she says about my husband: “Every woman needs a Joe.” ‘Nuff said. Continue reading “News Squib#7- Happy 80th Birthday, Joe”

News Squib#6 -In Praise of Nasty Women

Extra News TodayIt’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Donald “I-have-all-the-best-words” Trump finds himself at a loss for them.  

 

You just knew, watching Donald Trump in Las Vegas, that he was building up to saying something really bad as the final presidential debate rolled into its final half-hour. The interruption came when Hillary addressing the subject of entitlements and tax increases said that, yes, “my social security payroll contribution will go up, as will Donald’s — assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it. ”  Donald leaned into his mic, and said: “Such a bitch.” Continue reading “News Squib#6 -In Praise of Nasty Women”

News Squib#5 – Down Memory Lane with Paula Hawkins

Extra News TodayIt’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Author of “The Girl on the Train” Admits to Low-Brow Taste in Books as a Child 

 

the_girl_on_the_trainI was happy to read recently that Paula Hawkins, the British best-selling thriller author of The Girl on the Train, and I  shared a guilty pleasure as children. With the U.S. opening of the movie based on the book a week ago, the New York Times commemorated the occasion by featuring Paula in its By the Book segment. When asked what kind of reader she was as a child, Paula replied, “Not a particularly high-brow one. I read a great deal of Enid Blyton.” Continue reading “News Squib#5 – Down Memory Lane with Paula Hawkins”

News Squib#4 – Bring Back the Leeches

Extra News TodayIt’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Waging War on A Superbug

 

So, at least there is one issue all the countries in the world agree on.  Well, 193 countries, anyway. (And, it’s not that Donald Trump is an overweight, mendacious, narcissistic, tweeting buffoon.) What they all agreed on at the recent annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York is that we face one common enemy: the Superbug. Continue reading “News Squib#4 – Bring Back the Leeches”