Doris O'Brien is a retired college Speech teacher and banker. She has published two books of humor (Up or Down With Women's Liberation and Humor Me a Little) and for many years contributed light verse to the Pepper 'n Salt column of the Wall Street Journal. She is an avid writer of letters to the editors.
Doris celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in the same year she welcomed her first grandchild. She now lives in Pasadena with a great view of the San Gabriel mountains — and the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
She can be reached by e-mail: witsendob at (@) gmail.com
Job Hunting: Titles and Salaries of White House Office Employees
Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee. This report also contains the title and salary details of administration officials who work at the Office of Policy Development, including the Domestic Policy Council and the National Economic Council. more »
Beginning with Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears To The Book Thief; A Summertime Book List
The NEH Summer Booklist offers suggestions of 238 books recommended for young readers. The list includes newer works such as Coraline, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and The Book Thief. “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis
Aardema, Verna and Leo & Diane Dillon
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Youth and Beauty, The Art of the American Twenties
American artists of the Jazz Age struggled to express the experience of a dramatically remade modern world, demonstrating their faith in the potentiality of youth and in the sustaining value of beauty. They took as their subjects nudes and portraits that celebrated sexual freedom and visual intimacy, as if in defiance of the restrictive routines of automated labor and the stresses of modern urban life. more »
New Deal Numerology: Broccoli Roberts
Tim Price writes: This week's numbers: 80; 23%; 67%; 6%; 17 million 80 ... is an activist number. That’s how many years it’s been since the Supreme Court voted as conservatively as it does now, according to a recent study. more »
