I really needed to take this time off to breathe, to fully retire from being an employee, and to fulfill a rewarding and demanding one year volunteer obligation with my church. Done!
Meanwhile, my determination to quit the embarrassing bad habit mentioned in earlier posts is as strong as ever. I now have fingernails that I must cut short and a few that may never recover from years-ago nail biting and two decades of sculptured nails with the damage that entailed. I get a manicure every two weeks. Later this year I’ll post another image to show the progress made.
For me, the month of March has proven impactful. I quit smoking cigarettes in March 2001, quit drinking alcohol in March 1996, so it made perfect sense for me to begin addressing “THE bad habit” in March 2023.
During this time, although I wasn’t blogging, I grew increasingly incensed by the Moms for Liberty and other extreme right-wing groups who believe they and they alone can monitor what is appropriate to read, to think, and to believe. I published an article on Medium titled “When Books are Banned, Who Wins?”
So now, after the huge dark-money Presidential election of 2024, and the madness that has ensued since the inauguration of D.J. Trump in January 2025, well I just can’t sit idly by. It’s time to take a stand and speak out for the United States of America – the Land of the Free into which I was born. More to come.