4/16 From an email I wrote to my block’s listservDear Neighbors: You can just bowl me down with a feather. My COVID-19 test came back today as negative and Kara and I were both amazed. Perhaps I imagined the 18 days of fever, chest tightness and stomach distress. There’s also the 30% false negative rate […]
Dreamers’ nightmare–the cost is too high
Pity The Dreamers. Through friendships with educators and just living an urban life, I’ve come to know lots of immigrants. Many of them are Hispanic. I assume most of them are here legally, but I would never presume to ask. The people I know are family-oriented, hard-working, America-loving, pretty conservative, solid members of society and […]
FBI backs down … again!
For those of us who’ve puzzled over the FBI’s on and off again engagement with the campaign, it’s okay to heave a sigh of relief. Not because it means her troubles are over, but that there is, for now, no smoking gun. Maybe there never was. Maybe there never will be. For those conservatives who’ve […]
Unsolicited calls … Managed!
An unpolitical unsolicited call rant for the political season: I have no problem hanging up on unsolicited calls. If you’re my friend or colleague whose caller ID I won’t recognize, better let me know I know you in the first two words from your lips or I will disconnect you in mid-sentence. Apologies for […]
