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 What If...? This column was inspired by yet another highly rated Presidential Prospect from what is left of the Republican Party making a huge mistake. Ted, "My dad didn't kill Kennedy no matter what Trump says" Cruz decided that while first responders were dealing with what has turned out to be the worst disaster in Texas history, he would ease their burden by evacuating his family to Mexico without their assistance. His needs being met, they could concentrate on other less able citizens. Good on him, Right? But what if , when he got to Mexican customs officials in Cancun, they detained him because of suspicious activities he was involved in during the insurrection on January 6th. Countering their claim, Cruz demands asylum because he feared for his and his family's lives if forced to return to Texas. While pondering this question, Mexican officials interned Cruz and his wife in a wire-fenced temporary facility and separated his two daughters from their parents. Af...

 Repeating my new shiny thing discoveries, I submit some stuff that I found in the Twitterverse.   This week. If there is hope, there is no need for violence. When there is no hope, then violence seems like the only choice. This is how War happens. The people who invaded the Capital were convinced by the United States president that without the violent overthrow of the government, there was no hope for them. I assure you that will be the theme of Trump's victory tour when he is exonerated from the charges in the articles of impeachment. Get ready, America. The reality show that was Trump's four years in office is heading into Season Two. On a brighter note The weather people all agree our high temperatures in Milwaukee will reach the high teens, mid-twenties, and maybe even the thirties between today and next Sunday. The winds will subside to get the 'feels like' temperatures into the above zero range. National recognition Last week MSNBC was doing a story on The recent...

First , the second entry in my new fascination, crazy shit on Twitter. Today a crisis, the horns of the dilemma. Not to be too blunt , but it's f#*king cold outside. Let's break that down. There is cold. There's sweater cold. There's parka and long underwear cold. There's do not go outside cold. It seems to me that F#*king cold goes before sweater cold. Nobody is going to be F#*king outside in the weather we have this week. Or am I missing something? Moving on:   How many days since I've left my apartment building for anything other than grocery shopping?  Let me give you a hint. Every morning when I get up, I take my keys off the top of my bookshelf and put them in my pocket.  You learn to do that religiously because if you lock yourself out of your apartment or the building. Management will be glad to send someone out to help you for fifty dollars. FYI: you can't get a spare key for the building made. Since I don't leave the building or lock my door wh...

Who says Twitter is a waste of time. How can they say that when you find gems like these. Is there a place so close that we call home? Frankly, when I returned to Milwaukee in August of 2019, I told people that I had the same feeling I had in 2004 when I first moved here. It felt like home to me. No, this time, I wasn't in the Downer Ave. Area. That was beyond my budget.  I settled gladly in the Lower Eastside, a mere two blocks from The Hop on Ogden, Metro Mart on Van Buren, and Juneau Park on Prospect. I have immediate access to bus line numbers: 14,15,30, and the Gold Line. This neighborhood is vibrant and diverse. It hums the way a city street should. I'll admit I am limiting my outside activities because of an incident a couple of weeks ago. The landlords of the many apartments and condo buildings are excellent a clearing and de-icing the sidewalks I need for exercise and shopping. However, the curbs at the intersections are often filled with snow or ice due to snow plowin...

 In anticipation of my novel's publication, 26 Women, I'm trying to get more people to open and read my blog. I find a difference between people who open my email and those that click the link and go to the Blog entry. I need to increase both data points. So with that in mind, I'll open this week with a pet photo. This not my cat, but the shot is cute, and I'm determined to widen my audience. Instagram Photo from South Korea This week I've had long conversations with family members. My oldest daughter and I marveled over our good fortune to have such cute littles in the clan: her grandchildren, my great-grandchildren. Boden Hatampa Brixton Sieve Ledger & Jonny Sieve Enough pandering with surefire attention-getters. Coming soon to this space: Shortly I will be sharing with you a project I'm working on that evolved from an observation from one person and kind of a challenge from another.  My editor, Pam Frautschi, mentioned to me as we were taking the rough ed...

 Obviously, this period of quarantine is exasperating. And I don't mean that the frustration of checking my phone, not for the time of day, but for what day of the week it is, grows exponentially. So when my friend Pam Frautchi called me and asked if I was watching Television. She explained there was a mob taking over the capital building in Washington.  I thought to myself, "There is no excuse that is too extreme to use to get out of the house and see people these days." So there's my case. If this is something looking like an insane reaction to reality, we can blame it on COVID. Then they started the dead and injured reporting, and it wasn't funny anymore. It will be impossible to get the final death toll because we have no idea how many of these misguided souls will contract COVID and die. I sincerely hope that many of these people will be held accountable for their actions. I saw President-Elect Joe Biden's opinion that we not hold President Exit Trump res...

  It's over. The Holiday Season is complete. We are now into 2021, and anticipation of a better time is running around like a puppy dog looking for the ball that's rolled under the bushes. Now, except for an expected couple of million deaths due to  COVID and no one knows what the mad king will do in the next couple of weeks, we should be okay to get together in groups by, shall we say, next fall. In between now and next fall, we'll have more time to contemplate our navels and dive into Introspection 5.0. Introspection 5.0 allows those who have completed introspection 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, et al. until 4.9 to proceed. At this point, some of us navel-gazers will be seeing the face of Jesus, or maybe George Carlin. A lot of this will depend on your navel, is it an inny or outy. I anticipate more certified master bakers in the US and a thriving black market in sourdough starters. Because they will try to avoid complying with the FDA guidelines on this product, convictions for selling...