Learning from my aunt's polio experience
Sun, 03/22/2020 - 12:00am
My Aunt Cecelia was just beginning the eighth grade when it happened.
My Aunt Cecelia was just beginning the eighth grade when it happened.
Well, my first trip to San Francisco was short-lived because of the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the city for 3 weeks as soon as I arrived.
It would be easy to already be cynical about the coronavirus, the government response and the closures and cancellations that seem to come minute by minute.
Shortly after President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got into a bit of hot water when he observed to an interviewer, “You never want a ser
“Where are you from? Russia?” the middle-aged woman asked matter-of-factly, as she walked toward her polling place in Seaside, California on Super Tuesday. She had been approached by a man wearing a Cossack Ushanka hat with a hammer and sickle pin, offering to buy her vote.
“The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.” — Marmee, in Louisa May Alcotes “Little Women.”
The state and the political parties need to be held accountable for failing to align voting centers with demand.
We could use some Irish wit and wisdom right now.
Here’s a good start: “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.”
Everyone knows Texas is the greatest state in the country.
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