Horns to the sky and hooves to the dirt, let’s talk about Capricorn. The 10th sign of the zodiac and the last Earth sign, Capricorn reigns from Dec. 21 to Jan. 19. As the middle child between swashbuckling Sagittarius and charismatic cult leader Aquarius, Capricorn has a reputation for being shrewd, financially successful, and personally … Read more
Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45. Outside Rose Hills Memorial Park, in Whittier, where the funeral was held in January 1926, Thelma’s friends stood waiting. “We were … Read more
On May 1, 2011, President Obama, his staff and military brass watched the raid to on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound while crowded tightly together in the Situation Room, the sequestered complex in the White House basement. Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured the iconic moment, but it only happened because of technical difficulties. … Read more
When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla., for its April 12, 1981 maiden voyage, it ushered in a new and exciting age of space travel and exploration. But as Matthew H. Hersch explains in ‘Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle’ (MIT Press), the … Read more
It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem it’s me. We all know, love and may be actively recovering from the effects of an entitled, self-aggrandizing blow hard. Narcissist has become something of a buzz word in the last decade but cigar sucking Taurus shrink daddy Sigmund Freud was the first to coin the term in honor … Read more
While all people, and therefore all zodiac signs are capable and culpable when it comes to blatant untruths, white lies, abject dishonesty, intricate webs of fiction and fabricated yarns, there are a few among the wheel that tick the top for biggest liar. In his epic novel, “The Neverending Story” Scorpio Michael Ende writes, “When … Read more
It was — and still is — the biggest banquet in White House history. In a tent on the South Lawn on May 24 in 1973, 1,600 people gathered to honor 591 prisoners of war who had finally been released from Vietnam. On Wednesday dozens of the survivors of the 591 will be honored again … Read more
A state dinner at the White House is never simply a meal for the president and his hungry VIP guests. Rather, it’s a “forum for politics and entertainment at the highest level,” writes author Alex Prud’homme in “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House,” (Knopf.) “The … Read more