When Melody, my editor, asked me to do an article on fall fashions, I raced to the phone and called the hippest news service in New York, UFI, United Fashionistas International. Here’s how the conversation went: “I’m doing a story on style trends for 2015/16, can you connect me with The Source?” “Which one? The […] Read more…

Attention fashionistas! In case you missed it, (doubtful,) the hottest new trend for Fall 2015 is (are?) Fringes. Yay!  I’ve been a fringe fan for years – since about 1970 I think – when fringes made their last comeback. My wardrobe includes a black suede Western style jacket, with fringes at the elbow and across […] Read more…

According to an old government report, there is less political unrest in countries that play baseball.  Herewith some excerpts from the State Department’s “Guide to American Sports for Third World Countries.”  THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL Baseball was invented in 1839 by Abner Doubleday of Cooperstown, N.Y.  General Doubleday, a career army officer, was born in […] Read more…