I want to live on a boat full time (I WFH, so could be do-able, except the husband owns a granite shop and not sure how on earth that would work).
I want everyone who is firmly in the anti-abortion camp to please sign up to be an adoptive or foster parent. Right now.
I want to help figure out gun laws that make everyone happy. I have a gun. It makes me feel safer when I'm home alone. I desperately want babies to not get shot anywhere at any time.
I want to write a book. Fiction but solidly based on current realities.
I wish there was a way I coukd help political parties work together to actually accomplish something.
Oh, Liz, I should have known you were a Virgo, too. (Happy almost Birthday, btw.) I am here to tell you you can do all those things. I bailed to Italy, which is as magical as it sounds. I have written a book (soon-to-be-published by She Writes Press/ Simon & Schuster.: Feb, 11, to be exact.) I married again, and am madly in love. You. Can. Do. Anything. Especially, you, so creative and smart and accomplished and lovely. And we are all praying Kamala! Keep sending postcards. And crossing toes and fingers....
I have had a recent dream of writing a romance novel- my favorite author is Jasmine Guillory, I have taken writing workshops before but I have been more focused on creative non fiction/essays as memoir type writing. On my way home from the beach on LDW, I saw Jasmine Guillory is teaching a writing class for 3 weeks and I am taking her class on Selling a Love Story. As an attorney, I’ve been compiling a list of attorneys turned novelists to help inspire me that this is an achievable dream! There are a LOT of us.
I joined the postcard writing team for Josh Stein and have also been canvassing for Kamala Harris and participating in voter registration drives in recent weeks. I felt nervous because I hadn’t volunteered on a campaign since 2012 but it has felt amazing to be on a reenergized campaign. My 7 yo says nearly every day that it’s time for us to have a woman president and he thinks Kamala is the right woman for the job- and every time I go to a volunteer event, he says “Have fun with the Democrats and help people vote!” She’s in NC this week and I am hoping I will get to go to the rally-it’s not clear until 24 hours before even with a RSVP. Last week I lost a couple days to doomscrolling after the GA shooting but I’m feeling ready to make a difference again.
I have also been planning my 10 year anniversary trip to Hawaii which will be our first kid free trip that lasts over a week since we got married. As we have worked on planning this trip, I can already feel us being more connected and intentional with our relationship and reminiscing about the beginning of our relationship. We leave the week of the election so both are tied closely together in my mind (and right after the romance writing workshop ends too!)
I am inspired just reading this comment! WOW. So many positive steps toward meaningful goals. Keep us posted about the romance novel. And here's to celebrating some big wonderful news for all of us this November, thanks in part to your work.
Interesting proposition. And it is one that I sat in my living room two Saturdays ago and posed to one of my closest friends. What if we could just move anywhere? I move a lot. I never thought I’d be able to own a home my entire life until I got married at age 40, and my husband refused to ever put me on the house. He died in 2001 and I got that house after all. And I have gone on to remodel seven homes that one and I am looking forward to working on my eighth home starting in a few weeks I hope.
But when I post the question to my friend, I didn’t realize in that moment that she only gets $800 a month in her Social Security, and is living with her daughter and unmarried partner, raising their eight-year-old daughter. My friend is also married, but not to her daughter’s father anymore. And her life is about to blow up. Her husband has Social Security that he equals mine. And I started feeling guilty because I’m disabled and got more money because of it. But I digress.
In those moments, she started having me look up, senior mobile homes in other places than Oregon and California, possibly Alabama, she has a son there. And when we saw that there were none available and the conditions down, there were so horridly worse, she realized she wasn’t moving away from out west . Not even to South Dakota where her husband is from because there is nothing available there either one of us whatever considered living in.
One of the things that little exercise helped me with was to expand my desire to be back in Oregon further north into the state, then just grants pass, which is also about as red as the town that I live in for the last year with a Nazi living right next-door to me. So wish me luck as I turned 70 on 25 September and I am on the customer Virgo so I really understood that part of your post, as I head out to find my forever home. This is probably one of the most important buys I’ve ever faced.
This is so much. And you are taking the time to be a great friend too. I hope you find that forever home -- with decent neighbors who make you feel as welcome as you should be.
I support gun control through Sandy Hook Promise. They are actively trying to ban assault weapons and pass other legislation that would control how guns are bought and sold. We must make schools safe for our precious children.
Thanks, and you too! (FYI you might find it easier to post all of your thoughts into a single comment. Until then, let's hold off on more comments until my next post.)
I am from a small town called Sulphur Louisiana my McDonalds was on city service hwy so I had a lot of fun messing with peoples and giving them the best service I knew how 😀
I use to do a breakfast and lunch shift every day I loved it 😊 my customers I miss most of all cause I knew most cause I worked there for every bit of 10 years
Mornings I am kind of new hear😀I am Christine granger and I am 58 and a retired fast food worker🤪I miss my McDonalds job I just got to where I couldn't do it anymore
I want to live on a boat full time (I WFH, so could be do-able, except the husband owns a granite shop and not sure how on earth that would work).
I want everyone who is firmly in the anti-abortion camp to please sign up to be an adoptive or foster parent. Right now.
I want to help figure out gun laws that make everyone happy. I have a gun. It makes me feel safer when I'm home alone. I desperately want babies to not get shot anywhere at any time.
I want to write a book. Fiction but solidly based on current realities.
I wish there was a way I coukd help political parties work together to actually accomplish something.
Life was easier when I was 7. Sigh.
Oh, Liz, I should have known you were a Virgo, too. (Happy almost Birthday, btw.) I am here to tell you you can do all those things. I bailed to Italy, which is as magical as it sounds. I have written a book (soon-to-be-published by She Writes Press/ Simon & Schuster.: Feb, 11, to be exact.) I married again, and am madly in love. You. Can. Do. Anything. Especially, you, so creative and smart and accomplished and lovely. And we are all praying Kamala! Keep sending postcards. And crossing toes and fingers....
Thank you Barbara! I definitely have a few dreams I need to get moving on. Counting down til your book!
I have had a recent dream of writing a romance novel- my favorite author is Jasmine Guillory, I have taken writing workshops before but I have been more focused on creative non fiction/essays as memoir type writing. On my way home from the beach on LDW, I saw Jasmine Guillory is teaching a writing class for 3 weeks and I am taking her class on Selling a Love Story. As an attorney, I’ve been compiling a list of attorneys turned novelists to help inspire me that this is an achievable dream! There are a LOT of us.
I joined the postcard writing team for Josh Stein and have also been canvassing for Kamala Harris and participating in voter registration drives in recent weeks. I felt nervous because I hadn’t volunteered on a campaign since 2012 but it has felt amazing to be on a reenergized campaign. My 7 yo says nearly every day that it’s time for us to have a woman president and he thinks Kamala is the right woman for the job- and every time I go to a volunteer event, he says “Have fun with the Democrats and help people vote!” She’s in NC this week and I am hoping I will get to go to the rally-it’s not clear until 24 hours before even with a RSVP. Last week I lost a couple days to doomscrolling after the GA shooting but I’m feeling ready to make a difference again.
I have also been planning my 10 year anniversary trip to Hawaii which will be our first kid free trip that lasts over a week since we got married. As we have worked on planning this trip, I can already feel us being more connected and intentional with our relationship and reminiscing about the beginning of our relationship. We leave the week of the election so both are tied closely together in my mind (and right after the romance writing workshop ends too!)
I am inspired just reading this comment! WOW. So many positive steps toward meaningful goals. Keep us posted about the romance novel. And here's to celebrating some big wonderful news for all of us this November, thanks in part to your work.
Interesting proposition. And it is one that I sat in my living room two Saturdays ago and posed to one of my closest friends. What if we could just move anywhere? I move a lot. I never thought I’d be able to own a home my entire life until I got married at age 40, and my husband refused to ever put me on the house. He died in 2001 and I got that house after all. And I have gone on to remodel seven homes that one and I am looking forward to working on my eighth home starting in a few weeks I hope.
But when I post the question to my friend, I didn’t realize in that moment that she only gets $800 a month in her Social Security, and is living with her daughter and unmarried partner, raising their eight-year-old daughter. My friend is also married, but not to her daughter’s father anymore. And her life is about to blow up. Her husband has Social Security that he equals mine. And I started feeling guilty because I’m disabled and got more money because of it. But I digress.
In those moments, she started having me look up, senior mobile homes in other places than Oregon and California, possibly Alabama, she has a son there. And when we saw that there were none available and the conditions down, there were so horridly worse, she realized she wasn’t moving away from out west . Not even to South Dakota where her husband is from because there is nothing available there either one of us whatever considered living in.
One of the things that little exercise helped me with was to expand my desire to be back in Oregon further north into the state, then just grants pass, which is also about as red as the town that I live in for the last year with a Nazi living right next-door to me. So wish me luck as I turned 70 on 25 September and I am on the customer Virgo so I really understood that part of your post, as I head out to find my forever home. This is probably one of the most important buys I’ve ever faced.
This is so much. And you are taking the time to be a great friend too. I hope you find that forever home -- with decent neighbors who make you feel as welcome as you should be.
This is all I can suggest 😉my dad had guns around us when we were kids but they were out of our sites he taught me how to use them wisely
I support gun control through Sandy Hook Promise. They are actively trying to ban assault weapons and pass other legislation that would control how guns are bought and sold. We must make schools safe for our precious children.
Guns are a pleasure if in the hands of stable peoples but I don't support the ban on them at all
Wonderful organization. I always appreciate orgs that have a record of impact. Thanks for all you do Lorette.
Have a great day😀
Thanks, and you too! (FYI you might find it easier to post all of your thoughts into a single comment. Until then, let's hold off on more comments until my next post.)
If I could do any trip it would be to a clean beach just to sit and listen to the waves
I can't work now but I live with my son his wife and my gran girl who is just 2 years old
I am from a small town called Sulphur Louisiana my McDonalds was on city service hwy so I had a lot of fun messing with peoples and giving them the best service I knew how 😀
I use to do a breakfast and lunch shift every day I loved it 😊 my customers I miss most of all cause I knew most cause I worked there for every bit of 10 years
Mornings I am kind of new hear😀I am Christine granger and I am 58 and a retired fast food worker🤪I miss my McDonalds job I just got to where I couldn't do it anymore
Welcome Christine! I hope you can find something else that fulfills some of your same needs.