Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

 As I watched the news on Afghanistan, my feelings ranged from relief for finally ending a decades-long war and watching the evacuation of Americans and allies to the disbelief of the media and some political leaders' opinions about Biden's withdrawal attempts as being weak. Anger is another emotion that came and went. Mostly this anger was drawn from the previous administration's withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government that we spent years, lives, and money to prop up, and only to give it back to the oppressive power that we "allegedly" defeated in response to 9/11. We went full circle, literally.  Also, Biden's withdrawal was poorly planned and flawed on so many levels. The Middle East wars have been a quagmire the moment they began, and they began long before 2001. Right now, as I read and listen to analysts and read this agreement, I thought about all the US men and women that served in Afghanistan (and other ME places), ho...

  Cocksure. I am not sure if many of you have ever heard of this word.  And I know when you look at the word, it looks like a derogatory, not nice word, that I often called Trump, or sometimes I’d say it when I stubbed my toe. Yeah, it is not that word, though I can see how someone might think that. Now, I am not a master at vocabulary but of course, when I first saw the word, I fell in love with it right away for juvenile reasons. But I looked up the word and the quote that I found it in made perfect sense. I loved it even more so let me share the definition. According to Webster’s dictionary, it means: Feeling perfect assurance sometimes on inadequate grounds.  2. Marked by overconfidence or presumptuousness. Synonyms include: arrogant and cocky. And for fun here is the quote (I made a visual for you all, and my Dad is going to love the quote): Actually, I can imagine my father with a grin on his face going, with a grunt of a laugh, as he is reading this right now. He'...