Another Valentine’s My Love

Flowers and balloons,
no candy please, too much sugar.
Perhaps a movie
if we make it all the way through.

de·plor·a·ble

adjective

1. deserving strong condemnation. “the deplorable conditions in which most prisoners are held” Similar: disgraceful-shameful-dishonorable-disreputable-discreditable

Hillary Clinton said the following in 2016, which many believed labeling some of the Trump supporters as deplorables, cost her the win. Personally, I thought this part of her speech was arrogant and highly stupid -but not untrue:

A New Year full of Fuck-ups and a Positive Outlook

I never heard anybody hope for a bad new year -that would be against human nature. Things always have to get better. We want to jump higher and wider, we want to run faster. We want to make more money -not less. We need more happiness, more love, a better job.

More, more, more!

Voting in America

Read the ballot instructions three times.

Use a medium ball point pen – black, not blue ink, not a Sharpie, or it could be rejected.

Fill in the little circles like I’m defusing a bomb, don’t mess up, or it could be rejected.

Wordless Wednesday

Poverty is a lack of cash, not a lack of character

How can we judge something most of us are fortunate enough to never have to live through?

And my heart goes out to…

I suppose we all have a celebrity crush when we are young. At 14 I admired John Travolta, just like so many other girls like me. I went with a girlfriend to the movie theater in Austria. We got tickets for the show, sat down, unpacked our cigarettes and got lost in Grease.

Another Mother’s Day

Every Mother’s Day I want to crawl in a hole and stay there until the annual demonstration of love and gratitude toward the woman who MADE you is over and done with.

Not so wordless Wednesday

How can you come that close?

The dead, the sick were so far away. Many of them in cities I once worked in or studied at, when I was young. I knew the threat was real, and so I stayed home like most of us did.