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Silence is Complicity
Your children and grandchildren and great grand children will ask how you responded when the President of the United States first declared war on states that dared to vote against him. They’re going to know the names of those ICE kills. Don’t let your answer be that you were silent, that you went on about day to day life as if nothing were different, that you voted for themso even when it became…
Happy 21st Blogging Anniversary
21 years ago I started a Live Journal blog to talk about weight loss, parenting, education and writing. At that time my daughter had the same rights I’d grown up with and my granddaughters weren’t even a thought. At that time I regularly blogged about the dangers of a testcentric education system and how it narrowed the curriculum. At that time I wrote about how hard weight loss was for me and…
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What They’ve Done
What infuriates me about maga is how most of them are older and they reaped the benefits of the feminist movement and choice and the Civil Rights movement and Pell Grants. They thrived in strong public schools and had access to affordable healthcare. They were vaccinated for free and their kids were too. They lived a successful middle class life and enjoyed vacations to places like the beach and…
Profit isn’t always king
Years ago I took a course on commons through Wesleyan University. It was the first time I’d heard of the term commons defined as the spaces we use for collective good of our society. Parks and public schools fall into this category. As an extension so do police and fire departments and public hospitals, you know, the services we pay taxes to receive. During the course we learned about how US…
Thankful
Today a friend on TikTok asked us it we were thankful for today and I had to pause. Fortunately I am able to start work a little later today and I was able to get my pool time in because even though I’m working out, it gives me time to reflect. Even though the US is less right now with a totally lawless administration that is robbing the taxpayers blind and jailing immigrants in work camps who…
Truly Miraculous
Today Dad used his cane to walk into his doctor’s appointment. He’s off oxygen. He’s cooking and cleaning and doing the chores he did before all this started. He sounds better than he’s sounded since the emergency pacemaker surgery in October. He looks good too. I’m so, so thankful!
Dad Update
He’s doing so much better. The pulmonologist started him on a steroid he uses with the nebulizer and it did the trick. He is getting around great. The hypoxia caused a brain injury, but the neurologist said it should be healed in five months. He’s had lots of improvement the last couple weeks. Something I’ve learned that’s super important about taking care of seniors is they talk about poop a…
No Celebrations
I’m so sad for our country and what it has allowed to happen. From actual concentration camps on our soil yet again to sending immigrants to countries they’ve never lived in to terrorizing people because they have brown skin to stripping Medicaid and SNAP benefits from those who need it most to taking away the rights of women to sending the military to act as police against US protestors. This is…
Pope Francis Dead At 88
I’ve always respected Pope Francis. His messages always seemed very Christlike and not so politically motivated. He was good for the church. When Dad went into the hospital with double pneumonia, Pope Francis did too. So I watched his recovery closely, and I was happy to see him yesterday for Easter. Dad has had a tough recovery. He’s back in the hospital now. They’re retrying high-dose…
WSJ says Republicans Back Ukraine. That’s Not True.
I wrote this in response to their poll story on Facebook. Republicans tell themselves they back Ukraine while voting to hurt Ukraine. Just like they tell themselves they support public education while voting to destroy public education. Just like they tell themselves they support veteran services while voting to decimate veteran services. The list goes on and on. Until Republican voters care…
Home Sweet Home
Two months later, he’s headed home. Dad is home. Thank God. He almost died on Feb. 9, his lungs filled with fibrosis from arthritis or arthritis medication he’s taken for 40 years or chemicals he used as a young water treatment plant worker in the USAF or Agent Orange or any or all of that along with Covid, Whatever the case, it almost killed him, and it was awful. But he made it to the next…
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Home for a Minute
While democracy falls around us, I’ve been at the hospital or rehab with Dad. Feb. 9 was a long time ago. We decided to come home for a day to see Clue at Bass Hall and take a little break. It will be less than 24 hours, but I still worry. I wish Mom and Dad’s hometown had easy transportation options. I guess they could Uber places. I’m not even sure Uber is an affordable option there. I…
The Super Bowl and then
We watched the Super Bowl—I watched the commercials and the amazing halftime show, but Brian watched the game. When it ended we went to bed, but we had our lists ready to go to get ready the next day for the trip to Cleveland to see the grands and their moms. Instead we got a call that Dad was on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. 11 days. And Mom joined him for five of them.…
Public Schools Are Community Schools
Parents should be irate with the voucher supporting politicians calling their community schools mediocre. Are there public schools with problems? You bet. We hold them accountable. We can because they are public schools. Years ago I worked in a district with some great private schools. But there were also private schools in the district that did little more than color Sunday School worksheets…
Megalomaniacs
One year, a new defense contractor took over the flight line contract at Sheppard AFB. My father-in-law worked in an area that worked with the specialty planes that flew in and some other planes as needed. Their most important job was to respond if there was a crash. Their job was to put the plane back together again and figure out what went wrong and help develop protocols to make sure that…
Fake Words Created Chaos
Remember in 2020 when the whole Southlake mess started unraveling with the book bans and that weird guy Cori whatever was screaming about CRT in the schools and everyone actually in schools was like what the heck is he talking about?! But he just kept saying it over and over until Republican moms got mad and flipped out in Southlake and suddenly CRT was everywhere even though no one screaming…
Federal Aid is a Lifeline
Trump has ordered a freeze on all federal aid for people in the country except Social Security and Medicare. That’s SNAP benefits, that’s Section 8, free and reduced lunch, PELL grants. That’s the country’s entire social net except Social Security and Medicare. There was a time in my life when social safety nets were my way to the middle class. This is heartbreaking and infuriating on so many…
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