Before getting to the heart of the blog, I have an announcement and an ask. First the announcement: A new, revised version of my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck will be released the end of August. It has new content, a new cover, and was professionally formatted. It’s live at Amazon […]
Full disclosure: I didn’t listen to Trump’s speech last night as I’m so tired of hearing his voice, watching him insult people, hearing his lies, and watching him verbally stumble through a speech. I don’t need to put myself through that, since he has long passed the point of saying anything about helping the general
Listening to the news about the Iran war, as well the peace deal that’s been on and off, coupled with the ongoing tension between Trump and Netanyahu is like watching an out-of-control tennis match with the players leaping over the net and tennis balls wildy flying about the court. Who can keep up? The pundits
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Keeping up with the daily news is like watching an intense tennis match. One could get whiplash with the extreme back and forth in national and world events: The peace deal is on. Oops, the peace deal is off. Bombing has stopped. Oops, rockets are flying again. Gas prices are down a little. Oops, they
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I thought it would be fun to share some interesting slang words I recently saw on the Word Smarts Website. There are just a few here on the blog, but you can find more on the Word Smarts site, as well as more detailed information about them. “Wicked” is a word common to the northeast,
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Before turning the blog over to Slim so we can smile & relieve some stress over what’s happening domestically & on the world stage, I can’t let all things pass without pointing out a couple of truly absurd items in the news. Sometimes it’s a challenge to pick just two out of the tangled mess,
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This blog post starts with a plea to elected officials to STOP using rhetoric that in any way supports political violence across party lines. We are not enemies, so it’s time to stop acting like we are. My second plea is to the media to STOP using words like adversary, revenge, anger, retaliation, and payback.
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“There is still so much in the world worth fighting for. So much that is beautiful.” A wonderful, hopeful message from Jane Goodall in 2018 I wonder if it even applies to this year, this time in history. Between the war in Ukraine, Iran, and Lebanon, as well as the continuing attacks by Israel in
… even when it isn’t pleasant. Now the tough stuff. It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been making a deliberate effort to remove, or reframe, Black history in federal, public, and educational spaces, describing narratives of slavery and systemic racism as “divisive” or “anti-American.” These efforts include executive orders targeting critical history, removing
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So, tRump got us into this war with Iran on falsehoods and is now whining because the NATO countries won’t help him protect the Strait of Hormuz. And his buddy in Israel is bombing the hell out of residential areas of Lebanon, killing civilians much like he did in Gaza. Both world leaders got elected
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