My headache comes from what I do and don’t understand. My heartache comes from the hate and violence everywhere you look – TV, Radio, online streaming, emails, social media. I have two other blogs I have been working on but I keep getting sidetracked by everything else and then just shutting down in self defense.Continue reading “HEADACHE -HEARTACHE”
Category Archives: Political
Health Care? Common Sense?
Health care is one of the most vital issues for children starting while they are still in the womb. The current system we have in the United States really makes no sense at all and makes it extremely hard for young mothers to get the care they need for themselves and their children. The basicContinue reading “Health Care? Common Sense?”
VICTIM OR HERO or SURVIVOR?
Posts on Twitter and Facebook on Nov 10th (Marine Corp Birthday) and Nov 11th Veterans day got me to looking once again at how we use labels. I was objecting to posts that seemed to me to be denouncing veterans and questioning the hero label being attached to them. This post from someone I respectContinue reading “VICTIM OR HERO or SURVIVOR?”
MY 2020 Election Takeaways
I decided that I was going to be an informed voter in this election. I was determined to know what the different elected officials do and to understand as much as I could about what each candidate thought about issues that were important to me. I did some research before the primaries where there wasContinue reading “MY 2020 Election Takeaways”
Missouri Statistics – What do they tell us?
After I started working in the foster care system, I wanted to understand why what I was seeing and hearing was happening. So I started digging for answers. What I found out about the state that I was born in, raised in and lived most of my life in really hit me hard. There areContinue reading “Missouri Statistics – What do they tell us?”
2020 Missouri Governor Race
This is a picture of Missouri children in line to get the lunch they would normally get at school. Because they were (and some still are) out of school due to COVID-19 pandemic these kids would not have had a lunch to eat if school districts, community groups and volunteers hadn’t worked together to feedContinue reading “2020 Missouri Governor Race”