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Dear Mr. Blitzer

Posted on June 24, 2018June 26, 2018 by PlayFair

Dear Mr. Blitzer, I just watched your interview with General Hayden.  As a determined and incisive journalist, you had an obligation to press the general for

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Playwright Blog Abhorrent, Ackerman, Auschqitz, Birkenau, Blitzer, Dachau, General Hayden, Hitler, Holocaust, Karen Ackerman, Ladies and Gentlemen, PlayFair, Playwright, Survivor, Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Twitter, Wolf Blitzer

Save the Paper and the Postage, Congressman Paulsen

Posted on June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 by PlayFair

This past week I’ve received two pieces of mail from Erik Paulsen, my congressman for Minnesota’s 3rd District. The first reads: “Protecting Our Children Fighting Meningitis

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Uncategorized aarp, Ackerman, bill moyers, congressman, Congressman Erik Paulsen, Erik Paulsen, minnesota, Playwright, seniors, truth, vote smart

The Concentration Camp as Concert Hall

Posted on March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 by PlayFair

I would very likely bite anyone who tries snatching this book from my hands. Yesterday morning, 6AM, I’m grumbling, “Don’t bother me; I’m reading!” The other

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Playwright Blog, Uncategorized Art, Artist, Berel Lang, Blog, Erik Paulsen, Evil, Hitler, Holocaust, Karen Ackerman, Playwright, Ron Rosenbaum

Open letter to Congressman Erik Paulsen from Karen Ackerman, 3rd District, Minnesota

Posted on January 27, 2018 by PlayFair

Dear Representative Paulsen – I write that merely to be polite as you certainly are not “dear” to me, and with a frown and a shake

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Playwright Blog Congressman Erik Paulsen, Dean Phillips, democracy, disctrict 3, fritz mondale, Karen Ackerman, Representative Paulsen

Twelve Years and One Third Reich Later…

Posted on January 15, 2018 by PlayFair

Playwright, Lauren Gunderson, currently the most popular playwright in the U.S., was quoted in The Guardian, saying, “I think it’ll be hard to write this moment

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Playwright Blog Dean Phillips, Edward Dunbar, Erik Paulsen, Lauren Gunderson, Nelly Sachs, Third Reich

Emphysema of the Brain

Posted on October 2, 2017January 14, 2018 by PlayFair

I was, once, a respiratory therapist, back in the days when I was searching for a way to support myself as an aspiring writer….  That sounds

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Playwright Blog emphysema, stoltenberg

“They’ve gone mad…” says the Kangaroo

Posted on June 14, 2017January 14, 2018 by PlayFair

Send Them God Damned Australian Children’s Book Authors Back To Their  God Damned Kangaroo Ridden Island Have you read Koala Lou?  Night Noise?  Wombat Divine?  Wombat

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Playwright Blog, Uncategorized America, Australia, Koala, Mem Fox

We Refuse – Pass It On

Posted on March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 by PlayFair

I’m doing research for a ghost story to take place in Savannah, Georgia.  In the past or in the present?  Maybe both?  I don’t know yet. 

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Playwright Blog Elie Weisel, Islam, Jewish, Rabbi, Robert Haas, Savannah

Who do you turn to when nobody needs you…

Posted on February 17, 2017February 21, 2017 by PlayFair

Yes, Lady Gaga!  But If I Were You – I’m Not; I Know – But I Would Have Added One More Song In her interview with

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Playwright Blog 1948, Anthony Newley, Gaga, Israel, Nationalism, This Land is My Land, Trump, WWII

The Story Goes Like This…

Posted on February 15, 2017 by PlayFair

In 1899, Mincie Fidelman, nine months pregnant, boarded a train, leaving behind her Russian home, most of her family, and everything she had ever known.  She

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Playwright Blog Ackerman, Amos Elon, immigration, Kushner, travel ban
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