You can never have too many laugh lines. I like people. You can’t see my backbone but you can feel it. Now sings my soul. Fluent in Autocorrect. Be you.
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Jun 4, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
First of all, I want to send all the love to these two beautiful women. You are strong, you are beautiful and you are courageous.
Thank you for this.
And now it’s time for me to lay down some hard truth on us women. Hold tight for a Saturday night Elaine Essay.
My dear sisters, we have seriously, dangerously screwed up.
In todays cultural tugs-of-war I come down firmly in the side of protecting both men and women’s spaces
However, that’s only one part of this fight and we must take responsibility for our broad contribution to this.
Aug 18, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I am not an economist, but since Paul Krugman is (🙄) I guess I can say some things about this IRS charade based on experience working in the real world.
What if the Democrat party and their financial fixers and controllers need to rid themselves of the President because of his failing mental capacities and resulting mess. It’s right before midterms and it’s causing issues.
Mar 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Doing the right thing. A thread.
As I think about this kerfuffle about kindergarteners and sex ed and Trans swimmers, I just can’t help but be deeply, deeply saddened.
I am sad because….
I know many gay and lesbian families. I treasure my relationships with people who have transitioned. My own daughter will soon marry her fiancé and we can’t wait for her girlfriend to be her wife. I will fight for the rights of each of these precious people in every possible way.
Jun 12, 2021 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
How YOU, yes you, can change the world: A thread.
Waiting for the world to change is an fools errand. It will change, but your Interaction with it is exceptionally short and it has a momentum you can’t control.
So here are a couple of things that you can do it make it better:
1. Provide people with the same choices you want to have: who to vote for, how to believe, alternative perceptions , counter experiences, who they love and who they are.
Mar 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
My inspiration for years:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” —Camus
For the last sixty years, we have been lulled into such a false sense of security. We are victims of only our own self denial. The world does. It change. Human nature does not change. It is brutal and wild.
“Never again” we march forward thinking we are somehow wiser, stronger
Feb 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I want to gently observe a few things about the drama that has overwhelmed the twitter community I run in for the last week. Five little bodies lay barely cold next to the trash bin and people have been brawling all over the driveway. So many have been hurt in the fallout.
So I want to address a few things. This kind of environment is a particularly addicting place. We are freed from ourselves in a way that no other place can. Gone are the obvious challenges and worries, looks and health, and economics responsibilities of our daily lives.
Feb 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
For four years, we have used the word elite to mean establishment. In function they are the same. But for the establishment the words are not. Therefore, we need to alter the message in a way they can hear it. This election is between two anti establishment candidates.
Nothing says establishment more clearly than totally giving up your principles, no matter how “deeply held”,’ and jumping the aisle to support a nice person with completely different policies.
Feb 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I’ll be honest. I didn’t truly understand how bad off our society is until I experienced that airline seat discussion.
The idea that acting out like a two year old—because something that is within the rules but uncomfortable—is acceptable, excusable behavior is shocking to me.
The truth is that is we can’t agree on basic rules of decency, even if that means we sometimes get the less comfortable end of the situation, society completely falls apart.
Rules can’t make everything perfect for everyone. But we respect them because the grease the wheels of
Feb 5, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A decorum observation, thread: you don’t have to like the President’s crassness and tone to understand why Nancy’s speech ripping is perceived as different than his twitter baiting. It’s also an absolute pillar of communication. Let me explain.
President Trump, like it or not, has communicated one thing clearly and unequivocally. It started in the last election. Hillary was going around asking people to use the slogan “I’m with her.” Candidate Trump saw that, instinctively knew it was against the American grain and took
Jan 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve been thinking a lot about the food scolds and their banning of the dollar store.
If you hate the dollar store, you’ve never struggled. Let me explain.
In 2007, my husband and I were laid off on the same day. The next few months were a brutal struggle.
We are better...
...people for it. What we learned will be with is always.
One of the FIRST things you learn when you have no income is that one of the few things that provides pleasure in your life is food.
When everything is a struggle, you look forward to Kraft Mac and Cheese...
