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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 14
- 2 min
A Virtual Inauguration
Many cringed in fear when President Barack Obama and the First Lady left the limousine and walked the inaugural parade route for minutes...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 7
- 4 min
Trump Cheats at U.S. Capitol
When I saw the rioter sitting in Senate chambers in the recently vacated chair of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday, I was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
The Long Shadow of COVID-19
My holiday season is subdued this pandemic year. Since March, when COVID-19 pushed its way into my life, I maintain a high anxiety level....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 26, 2020
- 1 min
Steinbeck Celebrates Our Perfectibility
John Steinbeck's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962: "The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 20, 2020
- 4 min
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Cynthia Adina Kirkwood visiting Santa Claus at Macy’s Herald Square, Manhattan, circa 1961 Originally published in The New York Sun in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min
Buried Pain Scares Blacks From Vaccine
My mother had been frustrated trying to get pregnant with a second child. I was her first. In desperation, she would visit her doctor. I...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 13, 2020
- 5 min
“Vaccine Nationalism” at "Full Speed"
Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility in Soweto’s Chris Sani Baragnarath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
“Broken Planet”: "Mega-Fires" in Portugal
Residents turned garden hoses on the flames near Obidos, hours after the October 2017 fire began in Portugal’s interior. (Photo by...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 4, 2020
- 4 min
Spectacular COVID-19 Vaccines
News of the vaccines lifted my heart as did the fireworks in Lisbon last New Year’s Eve. Two safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Unexpected This Flu Season
I have been on the prowl for a flu vaccine. To no avail, I have made a few weekly visits in Portugal's Beiras to the village pharmacy in...
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