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Honey-vinegar
Shana GoldbergSep 02, 2021
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5782 SECTION A PAGE 2 Adages, idioms and clichés are all part of the way we communicate, even if they aren’t all strictly true. Take “The...
Questions
Shana GoldbergAug 26, 2021
A year-and-a-half into this pandemic, I still have so many questions. • • • Why were the new COVID vaccines fully approved in Switzerland months before they were...
Shameful
Shana GoldbergAug 19, 2021
For the first time that I can remember I am ashamed to be American. When I lived overseas I was regularly confronted with knee-jerk anti-Americanism, most of which I...
‘Left on base’
Shana GoldbergAug 12, 2021
Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve had a new phone buddy. One of my nephews, home from school during lockdown, called me one morning with an update...
Mistake — or magic?
Shana GoldbergAug 05, 2021
Have you ever heard of an eggcorn? Or Lady Mondegreen? Probably not, because neither of them are real. You have, however, most likely heard of Sergeant Pepper, even...
The magic is gone
Shana GoldbergJul 29, 2021
The magic of the Olympics was lost for me in the early ‘90s, when the format changed to biennial from quadrennial. The appearance of the NBA Dream Team at that...
Clueless
Shana GoldbergJul 22, 2021
Reading the recent Denver Post editorial of July 11 lauding the resurgence of downtown Denver, I cringed, embarrassed on behalf of industry colleagues who are so clearly...
Walking on the moon
Shana GoldbergJul 15, 2021
Why was it so important that man walk on the moon? I write this as someone who wasn’t alive in 1969 and did not experience the thrilling and otherworldly experience...
In her footsteps
Shana GoldbergJul 08, 2021
Many people have never heard of Mankato, Minn. and even fewer know of “Betsy-Tacy.” For a long time, even I, who recently returned from a pilgrimage to Mankato, was...
Sanitization
Shana GoldbergJul 01, 2021
There are certain writers who are machines. Every year, without fail, they turn out at least one new novel. Grisham is one, and Elin Hilderbrand has become one too,...
