Posts Tagged ‘Dewing Things Better’

The Light of Looking Better

Written by Bette Dewing on . Posted in Opinion and Column, Opinion Our Town, Opinion West Side Spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Bette Dewing(as) Energy-efficient bulbs zap life from the everyday “Looking better” does get our attention. But it’s the lighting, stupid (not you), that can make or break our appearance. Only a few—including Rep. Michele Bachmann—protest the so-called energy efficients for making us, our clothes and furnishings look rather, well, lifeless. To save lighting energy positively, sharply reduce
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Emulate the Best Qualities of Building Workers

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

They are the ones who help create a “village” for residents By Bette Dewing West Side Spirit’s “Building Service Workers Awards” section from last week’s edition has great news to live by—for everyone, but above all, for local policymakers. So please read it online or contact the paper for a copy. Read, share, emulate. No,
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Rx For an Ailing Society

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To change the tone, we must first change the discourse By Bette Dewing “Help!” was the final word of my last column, “Overcoming Heedlessness,” and will be the last word of this column. But how to help and change things? Well, many years ago during the city’s acute water shortage, then-Mayor Ed Koch urged everyone
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Overcoming Heedlessness

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An out-of-the-box message to new district attorneys By Bette Dewing For the record, what I wrote in the recent New York Times’ “Spokes” column (“I strongly fear there are too many bicycles in New York”) left out the next sentence after that: “I mean those who break every law in the books.” And very much
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Dewing Things Better, Rosh Hashanah

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Rosh Hashanah lessons; the dangers of over-drinking By Bette Dewing “Or as Abraham understands God to have told him, ‘heyay beracha’: ‘Be a blessing.’ That is why we are here.” —Rabbi Harvey M. Tattelbaum. How do we do that? Well, surely by not over-drinking. —Bette Dewing The above quote once ran in Our Town’s section
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Weddings, Family and Heat Waves

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Our culture’s hyper-individualism is harming us all By Bette Dewing Weddings—ah, but what’s needed is a great revival of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s wedding message to Diana and Charles; it applies to our culture’s hyper-individualism too: “Any marriage which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom gaze obsessively at one another,
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The Scourge of Alzheimer’s

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Finding a cure for that most insidious disease By Bette Dewing Why am I crying, I wondered, as I read Juliet Macur’s New York Times story, “Sensing His Own Mortality,” about George Steinbrenner. More important to me than the avalanche coverage given Yankee baseball owner George Steinbrenner’s dying was how at 74, he spoke “with
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