The word is new to me. I'm not sure it tells me anything, except that the lived reality for most of us is separate from the 'numbers'. a voter's checking account feels depleted, Feels depleted, or is depleted?

And...thank you for the support. It is greatly appreciated.

Ok. I'm not very proficient at navigating the platform. I love to blog and engage, but the technicalities are hard for me. I still don't know how to post a video on threespeak! or Snapie!

Brings to mind Senorita Morales, my high school Spanish teacher. She was a dignified woman with old world charm. She told the class that every day she would get in the elevator and say, "Good

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nice of you to offer to buy one for your daughter I'm eight months shy of my 80th birthday. As they say, you can't take it with you. The kids are going to get the money anyway :)))

Remember when the bird landed on him during a speech, as though to endorse the truth of his words. Ah, Bernie. Loss of innocence for many of us when the party turned against him.

I love the grille on the front. Has that classic 50s look. It is a great machine.

As I prepare dinner, my sous chef Lucy stands by with two streams of drool in case I need to add them to the jambalaya. 😂

I'd like to get more involved with emergency communications through my ham radio hobby eventually. I am so much older than you, and many people on this platform. Of course I've had to adjust my sense of

There we have the charts :) They are beautiful, and clear. I went to the article and read the words, which give me greater context. For one thing, I noticed that 4/5s of the voters were men. That's

I agree...you live in an amazing place. You have both the sea and the beautiful inland terrain. Falling. Scary. My biking days are over, although the e-bike looks wonderful. My daughter has wanted one

Happy writing :)

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This is a well-developed, effective story @rishagamo. I'd like to offer a tip about making the writing clearer for the reader: quotation marks. At some points in the story it is hard to follow whether

I (almost) never write blogs on the spur, but this one came to me as soon as I heard his 20% plan. Even the picture, with him as a Barbary pirate, came to me. I got up the next morning and had to do it.

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Oh dear. Not the Ireland my in-laws left in the 1930s...

My granddaughter, Ireland, 2019

She visited Ireland and loved it. Also, her grandparents came from Ireland. I think it's kind of a romantic notion she has. The reality of life might be quite different from her romantic notion.