THE RIGHT KIND OF LIGHT

Written by admin on May 14, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better

Want to look your best? Well, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachman has the vision to see that you don’t save energy and reduce your carbon footprint by lighting the world with beams that make everything look weary, wan and worn out
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LEND A HELPING HAND

Written by admin on April 30, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better

Well, there’s a lot to smile about: the Easter Sunday rescue of Merchant Marine Captain Richard Phillips, for one. Likewise for Susan Boyle’s substance-over-style triumph. Except the omission of family elders persists. All we heard before Phillips’ miraculous rescue was about his wife, son and daughter’s agonizing five-day wait. Little was said about Boyle’s sickness
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FIGHTING CRIMES OF TRAFFIC

Written by admin on April 16, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

In the Daily News, the “Death Takes an Angel” piece only made the sports section. Media and government’s relative indifference to our streets and highway killing fields helped destroy the life of 22-year-old Nick Adenhart and two companions when a minivan ran the light and slammed into their sports car. And this drunk driving carnage
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HERE’S SMILING AT YOU, NEW YORK

Written by admin on April 2, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“There are smiles that make you happy…”, “Let a smile be your umbrella…” Like many old-timey songs, we’d have more to smile about if their often sweet-natured lyrics and tunes became big-timey again. Especially here in what somebody once called “Frown City.” In truth, it’s become more of a “Here’s Not Looking at You,” kind
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PAGING DR. KOOP AGAIN

Written by admin on March 19, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

For those who requested a copy of then-Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop’s 1982 urgent warning against the alarming surge of 15- to 24-year-old deaths by homicide, suicide and motor vehicle accidents, do join me in urging him to reissue this message to President Barack Obama. Surely the need to effectively treat what Koop rightly
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REFLECTION ON A TRAGIC DEATH

Written by admin on March 6, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

There is some good news. In requesting Roberta Israeloff’s piece, “Lend an Ear, Can You Listen, Really Listen,” some New Yorkers said they were guilty of not listening empathically and wanted to change. A woman in the physical healing profession said, “I’m going to make every effort to listen longer before speaking, and when I
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EMOTIONAL ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

Written by admin on February 19, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable…” Adherents of Lent (Ash Wednesday is Feb. 25) and Passover (begins at sundown on April 8) won’t mind repeating of biblical injunction, or its “acceptable unto thee, our strength and our redeemer” ending. For others, an “acceptable to the cause of
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SHED A NEW LIGHT ON OLD PROBLEMS

Written by admin on February 5, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Yup, that’s me, dear readers, photographed by the light of a flash camera and a nearby silk-shaded table lamp. Isn’t it maddening how many designers eschew kindly table lamps for fixtures more suited to mechanical robots than flesh and blood human beings? If ever emperors were not wearing clothes… This paper’s photographer, Andrew Schwartz, found
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A NEIGHBORHOOD CURE-ALL

Written by admin on January 22, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“Don’t agonize, organize!” was the Older Women’s League’s rallying cry when OWL was a true movement for change. Organize and act! Ah, that’s change we need to overcome injustice—the illegal, but also the legal kind, like the shutting down of everyday places we need, above all the neighborhood restaurants. And get healthcare professionals, like cardiologist
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PEACE, GOODWILL AND COMMUNICATION

Written by admin on January 7, 2009. Posted in Dewing Things Better

Don’t hang up—this is not only about how we talk, except talking sure is vital to an overall healthier New Year. There’s big talk about Caroline Kennedy’s “ums” and “you know” speech tics, but why wasn’t she helped to overcome such discrediting impediments? Ah, intervention in general is so achingly needed but so rarely employed
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