This is a big week for the WP. Tomorrow night, Tuesday, is the launch for THE POMEGRANATE. Come if you're in the Twin Cities, or you can watch the live stream at 7:00 pm Central Time. To say I am totally stressed out having to get up and read my own stuff is an understatement. I am not an onstage person; I'm a director, dammit; I tell people what to do. Yeah, I can act, but I hate it. Not my thing. Yeah, I can write lines and did for about a zillion years, but other than working with an actor to help them say it, forget about it. I am my own worst critic.
There. Now you know my best kept secret. So if you want to see me freakin' out, by all means, come or tune in. It should be amusing at best. Painful at worst.
But having this other life as author with a brand new fancy-schmancy website does not absolve me from writing The Wifely Person Speaks. It's like being schizophrenic: I have two very distinct voices - the one youse guys read every week, and the author's voice. And I must confess, I'm still struggling with that new voice. It'll happen. Eventually. I hope.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
I am pleased to report that the three sane school board candidates were elected, sending more nutty versions back into the ether. Truth be told, I was seriously worried about this. Schools are our last defense against ignorance.
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Now, the lunatic fringe running for school board here did not seem to be advocates for creationism, but their refusal to acknowledge the importance of science when dealing with a pandemic left me with a whole lotta other questions about other positions we might not have been privy to in the run-up to the election. Which may or may not beg a bigger question:
Are we asking the right questions?
Possibly not because We, the People rarely ask questions of our elected officials. This is not something we're good at. And it's really not okay.
As We, the People, head into the midyear elections, we had better start asking the right questions, the ones that provide sane answers to the needs of our self-interest. Like health insurance. Like parental leave. Like creating tax revenue streams based on taxation of those who can most afford it. There is a large segment of this nation that doesn't know how to frame those questions, much less how to determine elitist bull-hockey from boot-on-the-ground reality. That mindset elected a GOP governor in Virginia who pledged to ban critical race theory from the public school curriculum on day one....except critical race theory isn't a part of the Virginia public school curriculum. Well, I guess he solved that problem.
That kinda stuck with me for all the wrong reasons. It reminded me of the woman who was touting the great benefits she got from TrumpCare because ObamaCare was terrible and she never could get what she needed from her doctor but under Feckless Leader's plan her health insurance covered everything. "No other insurance needed!" she told the reporter. "I get everything I need from President Trump. He was right to take ObamaCare away." She had no clue that her health insurance plan was part of the Affordable Care Act. I can't help but wonder what she would've done had Feckkless Leader actually repealed the ACA leaving her without any insurance at all. This is just one more part about voting against self-interest that I just don't get.
Meanwhile, back at the other ranch....
Our little town is getting ready for animal control season. Being we're on the river and have lots of ponds and woods, we also have an exploding deer population. You really can't trap and move a herd deer; it doesn't work that way. So every year or so, the city hired bow hunters to cull the herd. Yesterday, our amazing police chief posted the following on the community Facebook page:
I think we all appreciate the humor and humanity that Chief Kelly McCarthy brings to our community. I mean, who else would post a picture of a harmonica write this?
Help Needed!
On Monday 9/20/2021, a resident reported personal belongings were laying in the street. An officer located the belongings and while most of the items were miscellaneous toss-away house goods…One item didn’t look like it was something the owner chose to depart with.The officer opened a small instrument case, which housed multiple professional grade harmonicas. The case was personalized with some stickers.Please share and ask around if anyone they know had their harmonicas stolen.
She's seriously good at her job, and we are lucky to have her. Next month, she will celebrate 5 years as our police chief, and I hope she's here for at least another 25.
The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week
I'd really like to say "go buy my book," but enough already.
Instead, I'll say if you're reading the book
and notice something weird with words requiring a capital V,
not to worry. We already know.
It's getting fixed.
The time of the livestream would be helpful. Would love to watch it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that. It's at 7pm Central Time. And it's fixed above.
DeleteI definitely will watch Tuesday night.
ReplyDeleteWe had the same thing going on in our local district, 196. A slate of anti-masking, anti-equity types tried to unseat the an incumbent and two education endorsed candidates. I've never waited in a line to vote as long as the line for a school board election. Full disclosure I'm not sure I've voted in a school board only election before. Something about if you don't know the candidates, don't vote.
ReplyDeleteThankfully the professionals sent the social warriors back to Parlor.
But, I'm 100% they will come again. It seems to be what they do.
On a related to this post note- my suburban palace backs up to a large park that straddles Apple Valley and Burnsville. Every year, this year included, we get a notice sent to "Resident" from the Burnsville PD. The Burnsville PD will be culling the heard as well, only instead of bow hunters they will have sharpshooters from the Burnsville PD who will be hunting at night. On nights they plan to hunt they will close the park at 3:00 and place signage on all the entrances. They also note that the hunt will only take place on Burnsville land, not on Apple Valley's densely wooded section of the park.
Personally I don't have anything against deer hunting, there was a time that I participated. Found that I really liked sitting in the woods quietly all day, didn't care for the cleaning and processing and no one really liked venison except as ground meat. Sloppy Does as I used to call the meal, I digress.
I'm 100% certain that in the Burnsville case this is simply a private hunt, on public land that at the end of the day won't really do anything to cull the herd around here. So much of our neighborhoods have large patches of wooded land , and based on tracks in the snow, the deer move around the city at will, that you'd have to do drive them through peoples yards to get enough of them on one place to make a difference.
That said, Mrs S is happy to chip in for ammo as the deer have reduced her hostage garden to stems every summer for the last few years. Personally, live and let live. I like them, I'm not vested in hostas, and today, thank G-d , I've not encountered one with my car.
Not a hunting fan, although I've had kosher venison and it was really good. That said, I believe in wildlife management and if that means culling the herd, so be it.
DeleteUsed to try to grow herbs in a patch at the old house. Unfortunately, the deer thought it was their version of Old Country Buffet.
And will they pelt you with hard candies when you've finished the reading? 😁 Mazal tov and looking forward to you returning to being chill. As if. ❤
ReplyDeleteGood grief, I hope not! And I am looking forward to returning to my naturally laid back state. (hahahahaha)
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