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Tag: Karen Ackerman

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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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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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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Pull It Together

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 by PlayFair

Pull it together, for crying out loud! I can’t settle. I can’t write right. Words fail me. My anger feeds my fear and my fear feeds

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May 4, 2015

Posted on May 4, 2015November 28, 2016 by PlayFair

I’ve just begun reading the new biography of Penelope Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald published her first book at the age of 58 but didn’t become famous until she

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