Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

 Lately, there has been so much I want to write about on this blog. So much is going on in this world. There is climate change, abortion rights, gun reform, elections, the-isms, and the list goes on and on. So much to write about...so what's my problem?  I am my problem. On an average day, my head spins a million miles a minute with ideas, to-do lists, and all the other things that encompass being a cis woman in this world, within a patriarchal structure.  Ok, maybe I am going too far with this for this writing. I will save it for another time. Though it is part of my problem.  On my dry-erase board, I still have a large list of topics that I want to write about like the Afghanistan withdrawal.  Well, that and the fucked up agreement the US signed with the Taliban. Doesn't matter what President you want to blame for it, it's our fault that we let our politicians keep supporting a 20-year war that costs lives and trillions of dollars.  I guess we might be sa...

(First a word, this weekend I should be celebrating the official holiday of my country’s birth.  But this 4th of July, I am not in the mood to celebrate.  My rights, and people like me, are seeing their rights being slowly taken away.  I will drink and barbecue and drink, but I will be only too glad that I am still on this planet.  But this country was never really completely free for the rest of us.  To say so would be lying to myself.  A country started by wealthy, hetero-white cis men seems to only be for them. Class, gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. are our divisions, remember that. The following righting are my thoughts from last Friday.  If I can, I am going to try to get a protest together for the 4th, because we are not a free nation until we all are free until ALL our human rights are protected.) F*ck, I can’t believe this! I don’t understand, they actually overturned Roe!” I couldn’t comprehend what I was reading.  I received news ...

Valdamir Putin is a demagogue.  It is not fake news or Western propaganda to say this statement.  I am not sure if you all are tired of war, but I am. Why is he interested in Ukraine? Well, Ukraine was a part of the former Soviet Union, as was Crimea and he annexed that in 2014, and I can only imagine that he wants to relive his glory days as the head of the KGB and reunify some demented version of the Soviet Union. Mind you, this is only a guess, and what do I know?  He has been in power since 2000, a long time for a demagogue to inflate his ego, his power, and his wealth. (Of course, this could set me up for the argument for term limits in the United States for elected officials, but we won’t go into that right now.) These deadly sins have corrupted him beyond respect for rule of law or human rights. For me, I truly believe power corrupts completely, and he is the prime example.  He doesn’t care what his people say or believe, (much like our leaders), and to be hon...

January 6, 2021, should have been a mundane day in Washington D.C.  It should have been a date that most Americans did not really pay attention to with a routine certification of votes in a joint session of Congress. But that changed a year ago, with an incumbent President not conceding defeat. According to election results, the challenger won the November 3rd, 2020 election, 306 electoral votes for Biden and 232 for Trump, (a candidate needs 270 to win, the popular vote doesn’t matter).  For the first time, an outgoing President did not want to admit that he lost the election.   Trump cried fraud and theft by the Democratic Party. We watch the month of December in 2020, with the constant fear of a constitutional crisis.  No one seemed to know what would happen if he didn’t leave?  What would happen?  Would our military have to evict him?  The scenarios were endless.  For the first time ever, we had a President who did not want to concede his...

  Well, another Hispanic (or Latin) Heritage Month is done and gone by, and now Halloween. (I hope to have this published by Thanksgiving.) Personally, I have spent the last month really thinking about who I am, about the historical figures that have made an influence on me, from Cesar Chaves, Che Gueverra, and Dolores Huerta, and also the pride that I have about who I am as a person.  Who am I?  Or maybe, what am I? Then it brought to terms used with my ancestry, well, specifically, on my mother’s side. Those terms are Hispanic and Latino, Latina, or to be all gender-inclusive, Latinx.  Let’s talk about “Hispanic”, well that is a term derived by the United States Census Bureau to describe people from Spanish-speaking countries. So, technically, you could argue this includes the Philippines and Guam. (Look it up if you don’t believe me.) Then there is the term Latino/Latina/Latinx to describe a more inclusive (or maybe exclusive?) category for anyone with Latin Ameri...

 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'...