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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago | 
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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 | 
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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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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2 months ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: Confessions of how I cope with stress besides the usual advice of diet and exercise METRO photo Leah Dunaief,PublisherWhile a little bit of stress in one’s life can be a good thing, enabling high performance, for the most part, stress is a negative I try to reduce for myself as I get older. It took me many years before I even realized what stress was.
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2 months ago | 
tbrnewsmedia.com | Leah Dunaief
Between You and Me: Now I lay me down to (hopefully) sleep METRO photo Leah Dunaief,PublisherGetting enough sleep is one of the tenets of staying healthy and aging well. But what to do when you get into bed and can’t fall asleep? The Science Times section of The New York Times this past Tuesday offered an interesting solution from Emergency Physician, Joe Whittington. “Now I Lay Me Down to Play,” written by Christina Caron, explains the doctor’s technique.
