For Those Who Have Followed The Rules; Moving The Goalposts, And Shaming Us For Asking Why, Is Infuriating On May 6, two weeks after my second vaccine shot, I’m may find myself putting #COVIDIOT in my bio. In response to news today that Rutgers University will be mandating vaccines for students next Fall, while alsoContinue reading “There Has To Be An End To Masks And Distancing, And It Has To Be Soon”
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The Royal Family Never Misses An Opportunity To Miss An Opportunity
The Windsors Have The Ability And Resources To Adapt To The Modern World, They Just Keeps Refusing To Use Them It all stems from The Abdication. When news over the rift between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Royal Family shifted our attention from the pandemic for the first time in a whileContinue reading “The Royal Family Never Misses An Opportunity To Miss An Opportunity”
Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Help To Build Our Nation
As A ‘Crisis’ Builds On The Border, Let’s Not Forget A Similar Crisis Is Why We Get To Call America Home Happy St. Patrick’s Day. This week, while you are scarfing down corned beef and cabbage and scoffing at child migrants at the border, remember Annie Moore. Who is/was she? On January 1, 1892, sheContinue reading “Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Help To Build Our Nation”
Surviving The Longest Winter
As Clocks Move Ahead One Hour, We Can Finally Let Go Of The Darkness We Dreaded Last summer, as we were still battling the COVID-19 pandemic with no end in sight, no word on vaccines and the predictions for a winter surge looming, I noticed something that made me shudder. Daylight Savings Time was toContinue reading “Surviving The Longest Winter”
VIDEO: Making Two Careers Work
This past Sunday, I was on “Joanne’s Healing Within” with my good friend and Reiki Healer Rev. Joanne Angel Barry Colon to talk about ways to make two careers work. Since 2017, I’ve been juggling two careers – real estate and writing/editing. Only in the past year have I really figured out how to makeContinue reading “VIDEO: Making Two Careers Work”
Impeachment Is A Broken, Obsolete Procedure
It Will Never Be Possible To Get 67 Senators To Convict A President, Essentially Making Him Or Her Lawless So Trump’s second impeachment trial ended a month ago, and as expected the Senate acquitted him of the charge of inciting an insurrection connected to the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters on JanuaryContinue reading “Impeachment Is A Broken, Obsolete Procedure”
The Reek And Reward Of Politics
Why Would Honest People Get Involved In Such A Dirty Business? The West Wing aged poorly, but one of the things Aaron Sorkin’s early 2000s political drama taught us that is definitively applicable now is politics is messy and involves a lot of compromise and complex nuance debates that leave us feeling like we’ve justContinue reading “The Reek And Reward Of Politics”
The “U Mad Bro?” Conundrum
How Can We Hold Accountable Those Who Lack Shame? I’ve talked about my childhood experiences with bullies pretty often on this blog; especially about how it felt like any attempt to battle them proved futile. Ignoring them didn’t work, fighting back didn’t work, even when I “won,” they seemed to only take it as aContinue reading “The “U Mad Bro?” Conundrum”
Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising
Americans Rarely Dabble In Collectivism. That They Would Do It This Drastically For This Long Was Always A Delusion Social media was all abuzz this weekend by the crowds that packed the streets of Tampa, and later Raymond James Stadium, for Super Bowl LV, where patrons, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis himself, watched the BigContinue reading “Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising”
“It Feels Like We’re Being Punished For Doing It Right”
A View From Denmark On Europe’s Latest COVID-19 Wave And Lockdowns I’ve had a pen pal in Denmark for the past 24 years. Marie-Louise Metz (or Mare as I call her) and I have been writing each other since I was 14 and she was 15. We probably would’ve stopped writing if the internet hadn’tContinue reading ““It Feels Like We’re Being Punished For Doing It Right””
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