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2 weeks ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: Toto offers a way to save trees and clean your bottom Leah Dunaief,PublisherIt isn’t often that you see a big picture of a toilet on a front page of The New York Times. But there was one on the Business section this past Friday, and it made me smile. The reporters had fallen in love with a bidet made by Toto, much as I had. Only I beat them, for I discovered this marvel when I visited Japan 10 years ago. So what is a bidet?
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3 weeks ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Leah Dunaief,PublisherPerhaps you have noticed that there is little to no national news in our newspapers and on our website? We assume you understand that it is not because we are unaware of what is happening in our country and in the world. Most of us here at the company start each day with the news via radio or television or cable and even with news flashes from different sources on our cellphones. We talk about those items in the office and listen or watch when we return home.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: New Orleans provided graduation, prison escapes & all that jazz Pixabay photo Leah Dunaief,PublisherIt wasn’t easy getting to The Big Easy last Thursday. On our way to my youngest grandson’s graduation from college, we were leaving from JFK in the afternoon, and there were delays all along the way.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: A true story William H. Luers. Photo from Bakers Institute Leah Dunaief,PublisherThe worlds of art and politics might seem quite separate, but here is a life that bridges them both. Two lives, in fact. In one of those chance happenings that amounts to little more than a footnote but turns the tide of history, William Luers became the new ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1983.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: Thanks to our sixth grade teacher, we won the education lottery in NYC METRO photo Leah Dunaief,PublisherTuesday was National Teacher Appreciation Day, which reminded me of Miss Rigney, who changed my life. Miss Rigney was my sixth grade teacher in the perfectly ordinary elementary school I attended.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: You don’t have to go to Finland (survey says the happiest country) to be happy Metro Photo Leah Dunaief,PublisherJust saying that puts a smile on my face. Why? Because May carries the promise of sunny days, blue skies, brilliantly colored flowers on bushes and trees along with baby green leaves, and birdsong everywhere. I know I can just walk out of my house in my indoor clothing and find the perfect temperature outdoors.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: Betrayal aside, a dog named Balto saved the Alaskan city of Nome A statue of Balto in Central Park. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Roman Eugeniusz Leah Dunaief,PublisherWhile most of us know “of the famous ride of Paul Revere,” quoting Longfellow, there is another ride that happened 100 years ago that we can commemorate. It has to do with one of my favorite dogs.
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1 month ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
D. None of the Above: Seeing joy or a wordless call for help from expressive faces Pixabay photo/RobinHiggins Daniel DunaiefWords pour out of our mouths like different kinds of liquids. Sometimes, those words can offer necessary relief from white hot anger, agony or discomfort, serving as a cooling salve, bringing a smile to our miserable faces and turning, as the cliche would suggest, a frown upside down.
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2 months ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Home Opinion Between you and me Between You and Me: Rites of spring that we happily practice and... By Leah S. DunaiefThe bright yellow forsythias and the pink azaleas, along with the dramatic magnolias and the delicate cherry blossoms contradict the miserable March weather we have been enduring. But, you can’t fool Nature with adverse temperatures. She has her own calendar.
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2 months ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: High livin’ at the ballpark and hard work at the office highlight this past week The cover of the first issue of The Village Times in 1976 by Pat Windrow Leah Dunaief,PublisherTwo happy milestones have marked this week. My oldest grandson turned 30, which we celebrated in style, and The Village Times, the flagship of Times Beacon Record News Media, was started exactly 49 years ago. First the details of the birthday bash.
