The adventures of a zany mom

America, we have a cancer.  We had an abnormal person that invaded democracy, and attacked our democratic norms from within.  This person was allowed the highest and most powerful office in the land. An office that could have been used to better peoples lives.  An office that could be used to promote American values abroad.  Instead, we saw this cancer metastasize into all branches of the government. The only treatment for this cancer was oncological surgery by voters, while the patient was ravaged with a pandemic. The good news is that the voters took a big chuck of the tumor out on November, 3rd, 2020.  The voters came out in record numbers and chose to remove the tumor. Yet, with all this, the tumor manages to live.  The tumor lives in the guise of GOP congressmen and senators who won’t stand up to the tumor.  The tumor seems to spread in the guise of white supremacists who don't accept American values.  So, other types of cancer treatment are also warranted.  There’s work still

Immigration to North America began with Spanish settlers in the sixteenth century, and French and English settlers in the seventeenth century. For a century before the American Revolution, there was a major wave of free and indentured labor from England and other parts of Europe as well as large-scale importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean. Today, one fifth of the country (almost 60 million)  are immigrants or first generation Americans. We, therefore, are a nation made up due to migration. What makes America unique as compared to other countries is that the founding fathers expected that as people migrated into the country, they would add to the moral and economic capital of the growing country. A substantial portion of the Americans are opposed to the continuation of large scale immigration, and want to stop this influx of migrants.  Many of these are old-stock Americans who have all but forgotten their own immigrant ancestors.  Some, distastefully, are recent migrants w

There is a lot on my mind lately. I have veered from abject despair to a painful yearning hope all within the space of a few minutes. This is not a recent occurrence but perhaps has been ongoing for the past 5 years but this phenomenon has been more pronounced over these past 6 months.   This is because all of us are being abused. We are being mentally abused by a person who didn’t qualify to sit in the highest office of the United States. Yet he rules (not leads) in his classic authoritarian manner with no regard for human life. Here are classic signs of an abuser. - Extreme jealousy.  You think he is not jealous of the achievements of President  Obama ? - Possessiveness which leads to adverse control - Unpredictability which confuses the  abused - A bad temper with verbal abuse . We all know what happens to the few members of the GOP that dare raise their concerns about him.  They suffer his abuse.  This is what happened to Flake  and Sanford   and most tragically, McCain - Antiquate

2020 has been a long year, and just about a quarter of it has passed.  So much has happened this year.  We are blessed that we are still able to connect and find our new normal, as there are many who don't or can't. It was surreal.  I, like many others, didn't think much of the news of the virus in China.  A friend of ours was supposed to go to China early in February, and they did call off their trip.  That, I thought would be the extent to which we would be affected.  I don't remember a panic during the previous epidemics like SARs, MERs, and H1N1 but I do remember being aware.  I do remember washing hands with more frequency (especially during the H1N1 epidemic).  But that was it.  My son did contract the H1N1 virus, but a prescribed round of TamiFlu was all it took to recover.  Within 2 days of starting on his prescription he was back to normal, and just had to finish his dosage.  It was February.  Wuhan was on the other side of the world.  There were just a ha