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Why it matters

On Saturday I took my 9 year old daughter down to San Francisco’s Civic Center to participate in the Women’s March. I knew there would be tens of thousands of people there. I knew it would be cold and rainy and the 9yo was unlikely to last the entire time. So why did I bother? […]

Thankfulness

It’s harder this year. Isn’t it? The world – and especially our country – is changing and sometimes that seems scary and overwhelming, and I don’t know about anyone else but I’m having a hard time with thankfulness of late. So I’m going to do a little something I’ve done before (no links, because lazy […]

This cannot be real life

It’s been weeks now since the election and I’m still not over it. I don’t know that I ever will be. Beyond the obvious heartbreak that this country apparently would rather have a racist, bigoted, misogynistic blowhard reality TV star in our highest office than a woman with a normal amount of political scandals in […]

A (very) few thoughts on this election

Less than three weeks, guys. Like 19 days or something at this point. We can do this. We can survive this election. Honestly, I’ve always been sort of a lazy voter. I’ve rarely bothered with local elections at all, because I don’t usually keep up with the issues and don’t want to vote if I’m uninformed. […]

A few words, although there truly aren’t any

As a general rule, I don’t write about current events. I try to keep my blog free of hot-ticket issues, political opinions and potentially controversial issues. There are plenty of other blogs and online sources if you want to read that sort of thing, and while I certainly have no shortage of opinions on anything, […]