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
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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“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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As situations worldwide and domestically get more precarious, I wonder if we’re on the precipice of something awful, ready to fall into WWIII and/or another Civil War in the States. *** Are we becoming a world of hate? *** Here at home in the U.S., as Trump and Hegseth play war games for real, I
The last time the United States had a king was in 1776. Let’s keep it that way. I can’t physically join a protest here in my corner of Texas, but my heart is with the millions of people across the country who will be marching today to show their demand and hope and desire for
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This is actually not so funny. Federal agents from ICE and Border Patrol with no experience at crowd control or the proper use of pepper spray and pepper bullets are creating more problems than they are solving. And it’s their indiscriminate use of force that is escalating violence. Not saying that protestors are not wrong
Here in the United States we are in a new Gilded Age – well, at least our president is doing all he can to further that image with his penchant for over-the-top golden opulence. From wearing gold ties to sitting in a sparkling new Oval Office, he’s reveling in all the gold. Then there’s the
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In addition to the fact that it’s so hard for me to shy away from writing opinion pieces, this is why I keep posting what is considered controversial: “Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth, and it spreads out from the page into all of our life, and it should. Otherwise, there
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Before getting to my commentary, I want to share something I saw in the Nice News newsletter about bees and flowers. “It can be annoying when bees buzz in our ears — but if you’re a pollinating plant, that sound may actually be music to your ears. New research funded by the Human Frontier Science Program suggests that plants
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