Summer's View

No one likes or wants to admit they were wrong, but confession is good for the soul or so they say.  This makes me angry, sad and feeling very foolish as well as duped.  I did not vet the Women's March as well as I should have before I participated.  Knowing what I know today, it was a sham that was perpetuated by Bernie Sanders' extreme supporters. I was devastated when Hillary Clinton lost the election in November 2016 and sick that a narcissistic bully and predator had been elected as our president.  Seeing that a women's march was being organized, I jumped on  the bandwagon as a support mechanism to get me through the grieving process.   I enlisted my sister and we both embraced the march.  Having never been to a protest, it was exciting and exhilarating to be part of something so mind bogglingly big.     Please read my post of May, 29, 2017, "What is a Feminist?" which explains how, when and why I began to see the writing on...

I did a book report on The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer when I was in junior high school.  The report was returned to me by my English teacher, Mrs. Lombard with a slash through the title and the words, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich  inserted as the "correct" title.  Yes, William L. Shirer  did write the more popular The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , but he also wrote " The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler in 1961.  Being extremely shy, I was loath to correct my teacher and to this day, I am still annoyed for not standing up for myself.  I still question whether she thought I really didn't read the book; I accidentally wrote the wrong title; she didn't care to check with the local library because obviously I, as the student had to be wrong.   History was one of my better subjects and I was fascinated with WWII, reading many books and watching all the many movies from that era.   It seemed unfathomable th...