Category Archives: Viewpoint

By BOB VICKREY When we learned this week that all 68 of Amazon’s physical bookstores will be closing their doors, I pulled up a column I wrote for the Palisades News in 2018, after it was revealed that one of … Continue reading →

By PEPPER EDMISTON Special to Circling the News You know how in large families; some children are less equal than others? It just happens. Birth order, a sibling’s special need, a clash of personalities, a divorce, external events, all can … Continue reading →

Some of the people who live in the “Polo Fields” neighborhood — the land between Paul Revere Middle School and the historic Riviera golf course — are shocked that kids go to school or that golfers use the course.  Even … Continue reading →

by JULIA ABBOTT (Editor’s note: Palisades High School senior Julia Abbott, placed second in the 2021 Optimist International Oratorical World Championships earning $10,000 in scholarship money. The Brentwood resident, who spoke on the theme “Healing the World with Optimism,” penned … Continue reading →

Local community forums are handy – especially in locating and finding lost dogs and alerting neighbors that a road may be closed. These forums have a problem, however, when more complicated issues are involved, such as politics and science. These … Continue reading →

(Editor’s note: This story is reprinted with permission. It initially ran on Facebook as a remembrance of Roger and Michelle Potash about Sidney Poitier. Potash is a veteran attorney and he and his wife are Palisades residents.) Roger Potash posted: … Continue reading →

  By BOB VICKREY The author and satirist Fran Lebowitz once said “I would eat at home more often but there’s no food there.” In recent years, I’ve adopted Fran’s motto. I’ve been single perhaps way too long, and usually … Continue reading →

By PEPPER EDMISTON, Circling the News Contributor DECEMBER 30, 2021: Covid has been especially tough for us Baby Boomers. What with hair dye, face fillers, plastic surgery, fat extraction, breast-raising and other modern magic, we look nothing like our grandparents … Continue reading →

When I was twenty-in, I loaded up a suitcase with all my worldly possessions, two hundred dollars, and took a Greyhound bus from South Dakota to New York City. I was too naïve to realize the folly of what I … Continue reading →