In looking back over what could conceivably turn out to be both the best and the worst year I have experienced in the past four decades of my life, I can only express what happened in 2020 (and continuing into 2021) as something straight out of the Matrix. If you have seen the Matrix then […]
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“He who controls the narrative controls the world.” Operation Mockingbird was a large-scale project undertaken by the CIA beginning in the late 1940’s in which they actively recruited American journalists into a propaganda network. The recruited journalists were put on the payroll of the CIA and instructed to write fake stories that promoted the views
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I first became personally aware of the #Resistance movement in February 2017, following the recent presidential election of 2016. I had accompanied my sister, Sandy, to New York City, during that unseasonably mild winter when she was one of the five finalists in the America’s Most Amazing Nurse Contest. The organizers of the nationwide search,
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On a slightly damp afternoon in September, an enthusiastic band of freedom-loving Patriots gathered on the Public Square in downtown Franklin, Tennessee, to commemorate the United States Constitution (Constitution Day 2020), and to show community support for local law enforcement. Proclaiming Justice to the Nations Founder, Laurie-Cordoza-Moore organized the event with an impressive line-up of
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We are living through an unprecedented time and if you’re like most of us, it’s likely that you are feeling anxious, fearful, and overwhelmed in varying degrees at different times or maybe even all at the same time. This is a perfectly natural response when our lives have been turned inside out and we have
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Today the world is celebrating International Women’s Day and social media is alive with thoughts about what that means to different people. And, of course, the opinions and commentary are wildly diverse not only in content but in tone as well. They range the gamut from deliberately provocative and outrageous to a flagrant disdain for
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They’re all the latest food rage. You simply can’t scroll through Instagram without one (or a hundred) popping up in the feed. And, oh my goodness, Pinterest has blown up with them, in part because they photograph beautifully in their rainbow of colors. Partly because they are versatile and delicious, in addition to being a
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Eric Carle’s most popular storybook character, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, is having a birthday celebration at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville (on exhibit until February 23, 2020). For 50 years now both children and adults have been delighted with the little caterpillar who eats his way through quite a feast as he grows and
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According to Kristen Miglore, author of Genius Desserts, when Francois Payard opened his first patisserie in Manhattan in 1997, he didn’t want to compete with the American chocolate chip or the snickerdoodle so he based his signature cookie off a French macaroon. These scrumptious cookies with a thin, crackly shell cave to a fudge-brownie middle
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Saturday night we had a small, intimate Christmas dinner party, and like all dinner parties, it was an all-day preparation event. The morning began like most Saturdays do, with early morning coffee and quiet time, reflecting on and giving thanks for this wonderful life that we have been privileged to live. Then followed the division
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