Give A Little

 A little bit of happiness each day; one of the ways we are told to emotionally cope with the pandemic and general unrest in the world right now.But the need that was present before 2020 is still there, pushed to the background, so the chronically downtrodden are suffering even more.There is a way to help every day that is free to you and takes minutes. The added benefit is that you do this

COVID-19 Update: Only Cheese Should Be Aerosol

This morning We woke up to yet more disturbing news about COVID-19. Over 200 (some reports say 400) scientists worldwide have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to reclassify COVID-19 as an airborne virus and not just a respiratory virus.The difference is huge and will change how strict our response will be.Right now we know the virus spreads in large particles through coughing, sneezing

From The Experts: Info On Running Our Lives With COVID-19

Anthony Fauci and 5 other health specialists answered question on how they personally deal with COVID-19 on a daily basis. Here are the findings, in a shorter form than the original, plus added material from other reliable sources.The new and important news is that items you bring into your home are rarely touched and when they are the virus dies very quickly.This means it is a waste of time to

Jacksonville's Trifecta

​​​​​To put it kindly, Florida is an interesting state. Within this state is Jacksonville, the City of Bridges, or South Georgia, as we like to call it, since, unlike the majority of Florida, we do not have gated communities, snowbirds (people who come to South Florida for the winter), or outfits that put aqua and coral together. We brag that our  football stadium has swimming pools, we have

America's WWF Championship 2020 is upon us, 2016 seeming a long democracy ago.  Among last year's contenders we had a Socialist, Tony Soprano, a brain-dead brain surgeon and a pants suit.* The winner and defending champion? Hitler :The Sequel.  CLICK HERE if you think the Hitler reference is still out of bounds. Who does the reigning champ have to do battle with this

FACT: The food you eat today has lost 57% of its nutritional value since the 1950's.

FACT: The food you eat today has lost 57% of its nutritional value since the 1950's. The first time I read that I was shocked. I had assumed that as technology progressed, so would the quality of our lives, food being the most basic of things. I began to research today's food and learned so many shocking and horrifying things that to try to convey them to you here would not give the

Trump's Immigration Policy Again Exposes His True Self

Trump is currently enforcing, to the letter, a decades-old immigration policy whereby he is separating children, some as young as 18 months old, from their families and putting them in separate detention centers. Even this brutal law, that no administration has ever fully enforced until now, says the detention period can be no more than 20 days and the children are to be put in foster care

The March and a Change of Opinion

As I lay here on my bed, endlessly contemplating my broken foot and these four walls, I am watching the March For Our Lives in Washington today, looking for my husband and my daughter and sisters-in-law in the crowd. My TV is offline so I am watching on my computer. I am wishing I am there with them and hoping to get a tee shirt out of it. I see an ocean of people, more people than I ever

New Year New Look

I decided to move us Musers to a new lounge, the last one was getting stale. Many thanks to my friend and talented artist  Brenda Marks for allowing me exclusive use of one of her moving pieces for this blog. I believe it sums up everything I have been feeling for the last year. Be sure to read the caption.

Silence

I have been silent for about a year now. For anyone who follows my blog, I am alive and well, just not in the mood to write. It is all because of Trump. Every day I am more infuriated, more astonished, and more terrified. It would be nice to write about it but so many writers, much better than myself, have written about him ad nauseum...what could I possibly add? As for tackling other subjects

My Right To Life

Abortion is a very tricky topic. Below I have list just 3 of my arguments and I am happy to take your feedback and comments as long as they are civil. ABORTION IS NOT MURDER. If I shoot you dead I murdered you. Clearly you are a separate and self-sustaining being who would have lived had I not done something actively to stop your life.    Abortion is the removal of a being that

Let The Games Begin

I woke up happy today...then I saw the headlines. Ivanka Trump is selling the bracelet she wore for her 60 Minutes interview for $10,000.  Queen Victoria only wore a garment once, then she donated it to the poor. That is classy. Selling your bracelet because it was on television is just gauche. kind of "Mother Theresa vs Home Shopping Network". Trump refers to&

Voter Intimidation

Though I promised myself I would not write about this election (what could I possibly add to the fray that is original?) I did not promise I would stay silent on the voting process. I love to vote. It may or may not make a difference but I feel good when casting my vote, and I feel good about the nations we have given this privilege to. We have early voting in Florida so today I voted.

Trumpsters

As soon as Trump came on the scene I vowed not to blog on him and the more writings and television spots I saw about him the more determined I became. The longer this has gone on the more I have realized I have nothing unique to contribute so why bother everyone with the same rhetoric? My change of heart has come because I have realized not voicing my opinions is damaging me physically and

"Where were you when..." A 9/11 Post

Every generation of Americans has an “I remember where I was when….” story. Each individual person’s memory is unique, but collectively, we all seem to remember the same event as a once in a lifetime memory maker. My parents’ generation has the assassination of JFK as their terror, and their parents remember Pearl Harbor. Mine has 9-11. I have a pretty bad memory. Things I remember I

For My Writer Friend Allen Caraway...Who You MUST Read!

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Rude Awakening

From municipal buildings flying Confederate battle flags, to cops murdering young black men in cold blood, the resurgence of racism is open and unapologetic. We see it almost daily on the news as  violence and hate speech begets more of the same. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and in my liberal white girl ignorance I thought I had an idea of what this exploding racism meant

The Facts; Lets End The Argument

While looking for source material on the subject, I came across this article from USA Today by Alan Gomez. It is such a well written piece I decided to post it here, it is far better then anything I could write and he says pretty much what I wanted to say.(USA Today, Alan Gomez, July 16, 2015) HOW VIOLENT ARE UNDOCUMENT IMMIGRANTS? MIAMI — The war over illegal immigration in this country is too

Really?

I have been approached by a few people regarding my blog post on Donald Trump. In it, I give examples of how he has flip-flopped from leaning left, then racing to the right, and now sneaking back over towards the left again. My reasoning behind this was to point out what a phony he is by pretending to be ultra conservative when his record reflects otherwise. I tried very hard while writing