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 […]
Such a Good Mom by Julia Spiro is a reasonably satisfying mystery with a message I found particularly poignant. So, the mystery—Somebody killed a young woman on Martha’s Vineyard, and Brynn’s husband is arrested. Brynn may have to face unpleasant truths as she tries to clear her husband of the charges. Was he involved with the dead woman? Did he commit the murder? If not, how can the evidence against him be so damning? The poignant part is the honest […]
Patricia Leavy is giving away copies of SHOOTING STARS ABOVE, her upcoming romance from She Writes Press. How to get yours? It’s easy… just complete the Rafflecopter below and you’ll receive one from the author! So, what’s the book about? Here’s the info: For fans of Colleen Hoover comes an emotionally charged contemporary romance about a internationally best-selling novelist and a federal agent fighting to heal past wounds. Tess Lee is a world-famous novelist. Her inspirational books explore people’s innermost […]
