I considered a couple of directions for this F day (I bet you can guess at least one of them). I hope somebody else picked that because I need to read a good f**k them post. And I could have phrased Facilitate as Foment Rebellion—because at the moment, it seems that may be necessary. F is for Facilitate Once you reach a certain age, depending on your health and other circumstances, you may feel like you can no longer be […]
Today is April 5–important to me because it is both my mom’s and my sister’s birthday. Mom crossed the Rainbow Bridge some years ago, but my sister is still causing trouble wherever she goes and this is a wonderful thing. April 5 of this year of our lord 2025 is also important as a huge day of protest. As I write this, I’m watching Cory Booker filibuster and I’m encouraged. As I write, this is election day in Wisconsin and […]
It’s D-Day!! Three for the price of one today. D is for Do Your Homework, Donate, and Document Do Your Homework If you are lucky enough to have representatives who are acting in accordance with your ideas, give them all the support you can. They are fighting the good fight and they are probably catching hell for it in one way or another. Reassure them that you and more like you are depending on them. Ask if you can help […]
Contacting legislators at the local, state, and federal levels works (see Resource #3 below). Light up the switchboards—though they probably don’t use switchboards anymore, but you know what I mean. Keep those little aides busy. C is for CONTACT How to Contact your Federal Legislators How to Locate Your State and Local Representatives. https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials https://myreps.datamade.us/ Alternatively, visit your state’s government website. Mine is MO.Gov. You can google your state or try the state name or abbreviation followed by .gov. Be […]
Remember when I said this Granny’s Guide to the Resistance was for my own therapy? So here’s some of that. My stress level has been on a rocket trip to the moon. My shoulders are tight, my jaws are clenched (along with my butt cheeks), and my heart tends to race for all the wrong reasons. The tenseness in my body and the sadness in my soul are the results of more than the usual seasonal depression that I always […]
During the last Republican presidency (as I watched the U.S. grow scarier and meaner), I brooded, I cried, and I grew a cancerous tumor that nearly killed me. Inexplicably, the U.S. chose to put the same toxic energy in the White House again, but I like to think that I’m a wiser person now with an extended repertoire of ways to combat the stress and fatigue I’m feeling as I watch this round of chaos. So, all the things in […]
