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Monday, September 15, 2025

Stop the Hate!

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  I grew up in the 1960’s.  I’ve been told how my dad addressed his fourth grade class to announce JFK has been murdered, tears streaming do...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Governor Spencer Cox of of Utah is What America Needs Today

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  Governor Spencer Cox of Utah just gave one of the finest speeches about the call for decency, civil discourse and tolerance that I’ve hear...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Being True to Myself ~

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  I turned 66 last month. During my formative years it was instilled in me that life has its seasons and we, as women of a certain age, shou...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Feeling An Odd Sense of Grief Upon Discovering My Ex-husband Died Recently

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  Every so often I randomly Google people from my past out of weird curiosity. Yesterday was to have been my ex-husband’s 70th birthday. So,...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

The Early Days of Retirement | Decompressing & Getting Fit

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 Since my retirement from 40+ years in Casualty Claims in the insurance industry, I’ve been spending this summer decompressing and working t...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Another $100 Million Dollar Verdict & Why I Retired From Casualty Claims

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  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article310865835.html May 9, 2025 was my final day as an Executive Cla...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

The American Dream 100 Years Ago- My Paternal Grandparents

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  This is a picture of my paternal grandfather, French Lawrence Copeland and his bride,Blanche Vivian Noon Copeland in the mid 1920s. They l...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Americans Are Not Racist or Heartless/ Ignore the Media

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 This is me, Vivian Harrington, in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, the week Bill Clinton was first elected President of the USA. At the time, I was...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Celebrate Independence Day — Accept That Americans are Generous People

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  A couple of weeks ago I met my friend and mentor, Dana Rose, for tea at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. We were celebrating my retire...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

A Return To Common Sense- Celebrate Riley Gaines! UPA Capitulates

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 In today’s modern world, few young women have the  guts and wherewithal to fight city hall over heinous disregard of human rights. But Rile...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

A Solution To Part of the Illegal Immigration Problem—Hong Kong Before PRC

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Congress has abrogated its job for decades. While the questions involving illegal immigration are divisive, attacking ICE for doing its job,...
Friday, June 13, 2025

We Have A Moral & Defense Duty To Support Israel

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 Israel is now doing what the USA should have done in 1979 when the revolutionaries invaded the US embassy in Tehran and took American diplo...
Friday, May 23, 2025

The Biden Cover-Up

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This is one of the most reprehensible cover-ups in the history of the Republic. Initially, who thought it was a reasonable strategy to keep ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Murder at the Jewish Museum in DC

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 I’ve worked in the District of Columbia since 1994. I first applied for a position with the Library of Congress in 1980. I’ve loved the con...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

The Washington Post | The Fall of a Once Great Newspaper

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  Democracy Dies in Darkness      This is the slogan The Washington Post began using in 2017, four years after Jeff Bezos purchased the fail...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

6 More Working Days Until Retirement

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  I’ve been on the insurance business since June 9, 1980.  For some reason can’t recall, so took extra classes and graduated with my BA at t...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Contemplating the Legacy of Pope Francis

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  I was a child of the 1960’s, Vatican 2, the Vietnam war, the women’s movement, a shift in the fabric of American society.  Priests and nun...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

America Thrived for 150 Years Without A Safety Net

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  This photograph depicts my ancestors more than 100 years ago. They were farmers, living on their land in Southern  Indiana without electri...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Does Anyone Really Understand Their Political Arguments ?

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  I must admit that I troll the mind numbing comments that people write who believe they are brilliant, insightful, common sense posters to ...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Troglodytes Torch Pennsylvania Governor’s Home

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 What had become of American society when some troglodyte thinks it is just fine & dandy to set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mans...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Twenty Working Days Until Retirement

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  I can’t believe I only have 20 more working days until retirement from my position as an AVP Executive Claim Director at one of the larges...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Thirty More Working Days Until Retirement

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  When I made the decision to retire, I was ambivalent about how much notice would be appropriate. I’ve been with my employer over 23 years....
Sunday, March 23, 2025

What it means to be Libertarian

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  Recently, I’ve had posters on social media comment that I cannot be a true Libertarian if I do not accept the concept that biological male...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Making the Decision to Retire

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  Making the decision to retire wasn’t easy. It was a struggle to determine if the time is right, if I’d saved enough money to live the life...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I’ve Decided To Retire | May 9, 2025!

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  This was me a year ago, March 2024, celebrating my dad’s 92nd birthday. Since that time, we’ve lost my father-in-law, my aunt, my mother-i...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Disrespect For Our Democratic Procss

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 I have not always been a supporter of Donald Trump.However, he is a far superior representative of the USA than our former incompetent, men...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

DOGE, Do-nothing Congress, Trump & Entertainment

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  I have lived just outside the Washington, DC beltway for more than 30 years in suburban Maryland and Virginia. For several years I commute...
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Lockerbie with Colin Firth on Peacock

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  My reaction to the first two episodes of Lockerbie, starring Colin Firth, was visceral. December 21, 1988 Libyan operatives smuggled explo...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

After Years of Exploring BedLinens~ It’s Cozy Earth

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  I e spent years looking for the perfect sheets that satisfy the disparate requirements of my spousal unit and me. If I were only concerned...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Looking Forward to New Adventures

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  2025 may be a turning point. I’ve reached a place where I’m yearning for new adventures, the next phase of life, another reinvention. Afte...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Moving Forward in 2025

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  After a heartbreaking 2024, Todd and I have decided to celebrate life on 2035. There is no magic formula. It is one minute at a time, one ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A Farewell to 2024

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  Major losses of loved ones in 2024 caused me to reevaluate how I want to spend the next chapter of my life. Originally, I’d contemplated w...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Friends Are Family

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  2024 has been the end of an era. My dear Daddy left us the end of September, a man larger than life. We also experienced the loss of my hu...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Our First Christmas as Orphans

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  I know I’ve been fortunate to have my dad and my in-laws in my life  for as long as I have. Many people do not have such good fortune. But...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Bittersweet Holidays

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  2024 has been a transitional year. Between March 31st and the end of September we lost my father-in-law,  my Aunt Virginia, my mother-in -...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

First Thanksgiving After Losing All Our Parents

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  Melancholy is the word of the week. I feel melancholy, defined in part as pensive reflection or contemplation, depression of spirits.  Tho...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Evidence of Life After Death

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  My dad left us on September 22nd. He joined our mother who had departed this world nearly 8 years previously in December 2016. While I’ve ...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Mourning My Father, Richard B. Copeland

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  My father, Richard Bruce Copeland, departed this earthly life this morning. He was born on March 18, 1932, to Lawrence French and Blanche ...
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