V is for VOTE Short post with a simple message—Vote! Vote. Vote every time you can. Vote for dogcatcher, school board members, bond issues, state legislators and federal representatives and senators—and vote for a qualified and honorable Presidential candidate.   Be an informed voter. If your local media is asleep at the wheel—like mine—then get answers on your own. Call up the school board candidates/judges/dogcatcher candidates and ask them questions. Post their answers in a letter to the editor or […]

Random thoughts on Four S Words Sad This is a sad moment in the U.S.—so many people support hate, and it’s discouraging. How do you combat that? The bad excuse that they just don’t realize what they are doing makes no sense in a time when you literally have all the info at your fingertips. No. Hatefulness is real and exists in your own neighborhood. This is profoundly sad to those of us who have always assumed that people are […]

U is for Unite I remember the 60s—barely, for I was a mere slip of a girl—as a time when the world seemed turned upside down. Riots, assassinations, and war were in the headlines. Even my little town felt the uncertainty of the times as they watched their young men shipped off to a war that the government didn’t seem to want to win. Then, there was Nixon and the betrayal of trust at the highest levels of our government. […]

T is for Thankful This is one of those self-care posts and I’ll try not to sound too much like Pollyanna. Take a minute to be thankful for what you have. As we are seeing, those things we take for granted can disappear with the stroke of a tyrant’s pen. But today it is still possible to post and speak against the government. People are outraged by the goings on and are beginning to hold people accountable. It’s a start. […]

R is for Recycle When I was a kid, I was threatened with dismemberment if I tossed trash out of the car window or left messes–she was probably joking, but then again…. This seemed unfair since my dad had enough metal machinery parts lying around to tilt magnetic north by at least a degree or two. That early training may be why I value a good trash bin now and why recycling has become near and dear to my heart. […]