Summer's View

After living in a flood zone for over 12 years, my husband and I made the difficult decision to evacuate when faced with the impending arrival of Hurricane Florence.   We had ridden out Irene and Matthew, but the warning for Florence was different.  I could physically feel the fear and my family kept chanting: GO!  Go now!  Leave!  The county had issued a mandatory evacuation which only means that you are on your own if you need help.   As we prepared to leave, I moved the 15 scrapbooks I had made for my "grand"son for his graduation from college, the three scrapbooks I made of the graduation trips I had given to my two nieces and nephew; photos of my late son, brother and sister to the room over the garage.  I looked around at this room that seemed to be the Museum of my Life:  a wall of my "grand"son's achievements; photos of his high school and college graduation; the painting my niece did of Democrats for Hillary and Obama during the ...

 Update:  February 22, 2021 If you watched  Chuck Todd on MSNBC, you may have noticed that Steve Scalise who has zero credibility and has shown his true colors too many times was welcomed to voice his opinion.  WHY?  When Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, the media gurus kept telling her and her supporters to MOVE ON.  Why does the media keep giving the far right Trump wackos a platform?   I don't need to write a new blog post on this because it is the same ole, same ole garbage being regurgitated.  Below is a headline from the end of December 2020.   "Beltway media fears the loss of Trump gravy train..." The answer, my friend is in the lyrics from Cabaret's Money:  "Money makes the world go around The world go around The world go around"   ***  Update:  December 30, 2020                          ...

The other day I read a Facebook  post that insisted that it was unfair and offensive to compare the Holocaust and Nazis with the separation of migrant children and their parents.  Below is a response to that post from a woman who also happens to be a middle school teacher.  The thought of her teaching makes me cringe. Like most Facebook posts, it verges on the edge of some facts, but most of it is opinion.  Below is the post that set my hair on fire.  I did a copy and paste for the sake of accuracy and not paraphrasing.        "Our situation is not born of racial hatred. It is born of safety concerns, economic stress, and fear that instead of being a great country that receives and nurtures refugees, we are becoming a struggling country that has become a dumping ground. They come here of their own volition, knowing that detention centers and jail are possibilities. Some are legitimately escaping catastrophic circumstances. Others are seek...

THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY OF COMMUNITY THEATRE This is my experience.  Obviously, others may not have encountered the same types of people or situations that I did.  After retiring to a small coastal area, I decided it was time to find a hobby.  I had been active in community service for several years, but I also had a passion for theatre so...  This is my story. I saw an audition notice in the local newspaper and feeling nervous and apprehensive, I gathered my courage and read for a part.  I would have been thrilled with any part, but surprise, I landed one of the leads.  It was a role for a much younger woman, but since few people showed up to audition...  This theatre group was the B theatre that had been created when several disgruntled people from the A theatre group went rogue and started a new group.  Warning, Will Robinson!  This should have been my first clue I was entering into a group that was already charged with emotion an...

HELP! NEED IMPEACHMENT ASAP!  PLEASE SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM THE MADMAN  IN THE WHITE HOUSE! SPEED IS OF THE  GREATEST NECESSITY!   ###

KINDNESS & GOODNESS RANDOM AND INTENTIONAL It isn't always easy to choose to be kind especially these days when the leader of our country can only be described as a bully.  He certainly does not lead by example when it comes to goodness.  He pulled in the evangelicals by simply saying he was Christian even though his actions were so far from being Christian, that he has made a mockery of the Christian right.  Civility seems to be a lost art.  It is still hard for me to believe that evangelical Christians chose Trump over Hillary Clinton.  I find it very sad, perplexing and extremely hypocritical, but since I have covered that territory in other posts on this blog, I will move on with my thoughts on kindness.    Hillary Clinton quoted this from John Wesley many times during her 2016 campaign:      "Do all the good you can , by all the means you can , in all the ways you can , in all the places you can , at all th...

Update:  July 5, 2020 Originally written on March 10, 2018.  Much has changed, but the administration has stayed the course in outrageous and deplorable behaviour.  Trump has become even more incoherent and his lies are now measured in the thousands. He brought in William Barr as Attorney General who has proven to be just another lawyer for Trump; covering up his abuses; lying for him and destroying the rule of law and helping to turn our country into a dictatorship run by the right. We now have even more unqualified people in places of power in the administration who are willing to along with Trump's agenda at all costs. We are in the middle of pandemic (Covid-19)  that Trump and his cohorts have turned into a nightmare of outrageous stupidity. This administration has become a symbol for white nationalism which has trickled down to the most uneducated in our country.  Many white women and men looking more and more deranged are  screaming obscenities at an...

Several people serving in the current administration of the 45th president have been explaining their stance on legal immigration to the United States.  While there is much to be said about DACA and family reunification, etc. I have been trying to wrap my head around what has been espoused thus far regarding the changes this administration wants to implement regarding legal immigration .   What I am hearing is that the new policy would include more vetting of potential immigrants; bringing in people that are educated and skilled in professions that our country needs.  This made me think about my own ancestors.  It is highly doubtful that they would have passed muster in order for them to immigrate.  My sixth Great Grandfather on my maternal Grandmother's side of the family left Ireland (the family were Scots who had emigrated to Ulster, Ireland;  (his father was born on the Isle of Lewis, Hebrides Island, Scotland) on the ship, "Sally of Coleraine" in 17...