Posted on June 16, 2021 by Leona in baby boomers, culture, Donald Trump, education, mainstream media, media, political correctness, teachers' unions
The two areas of American life that I’ve seen the most changes from the 1950s to the present are in education and the media. We all started school in Kindergarten. There was no pre-school in the 50s, at least where I grew up in Brooklyn. Now, kids are expected to have a pre-school experience before […]
Posted on June 6, 2021 by Leona in baby boomers, civility, culture, political correctness, politics, secular progressives, society
Yes, many things have changed since I was born in 1951. Some changes are good. Some changes are definitely not so good. Others, well, are just interesting. Back in the ‘50s, my husband’s parents couldn’t buy a house in Monterey Park, a neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles. His father was Native American and his […]
Posted on May 17, 2021 by Leona in 31 genders - NYC, Academy Awards, Colin Kaepernick, common sense, culture, diversity, gender, gender-neutral pronouns, Instagram, Joe McCarthy, society, sports, television, The View, Walt Disney Company
Television and movies have changed dramatically. (I won’t even get into the music business.) Where men used to be noble, dignified supporters of their family, they are now often depicted as buffoons and slobs. Francis Reagan, the patriarch of Blue Bloods, as well as the other men on the show, are definitely exceptions – that’s […]
Posted on May 12, 2021 by Leona in 31 genders - NYC, abortion, cell phones, childrearing, children born out of wedlock, civility, contraception, culture, feminism, gender, Gloria Steinem, Lyndon B. Johnson, morality, Personal observations, personal responsibility, prolife, sanctity of life, society, texting, unborn children, welfare
Last Christmas, my niece gave me a subscription to StoryWorth. Each week she asks me a question to which I respond in order to memorialize my thoughts and feelings over the past 70 years. A recent question was, “How has life changed since you were a child?” Well, that opened the floodgates and I’m sure […]