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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

What Brings You Joy?

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  Social media tends to focus on the negative . The algorithms identify stories, articles, opinions or websites that tend to support the w...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Pantone Again Declares A Ridiculous Color of the Year~~WHITE

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Technically, Pantone has named ‘ Cloud  Dancer’ as its color for 2026. The Pantone website describes the Cloud Dancer ‘color’ as calming-...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Harry Sussex Has No Right to Criticize Our President

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  The former working royal, who is currently residing in the USA, has zero credibility in criticizing the POTUS. Those of us who are citizen...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Practice Yoga for Flexibility, Peace & Harmony- Dispels TDS

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  If I could encourage everyone to do something for self care, I recommend yoga. The practice of yoga is a personal journey that lowers bloo...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Thank Sarah Josepha Hale for Our Thanksgiving Celebration

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  Few people realize that our national day of thanks resulted from a decades late long lobbying effort by Sarah Josepha Hale, the longtime e...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

A National Day of Gratitude Should Engender Acceptance of Our Differences

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  President Abraham Lincoln said established the fourth Thursday in November as a national day of giving thanks and gratitude in 1863 in the...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Just Release the Epstein Files- Let The Fallout Be What It Must Be ~

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  I believe in transparency. DJT campaigned on transparency. The back and forth over the Epstein records is ridiculous. You either believe i...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

To Counter Divisive Political Rhetoric- Practice Random Acts of Kindness

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  No matter whether you vote blue, red, green or rainbow, it is my hope that those of us that make up the majority of the voting public, mod...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

What Privileged Voters Supporting Socialism Do Not Understand- Most Have Easy Lives

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This is the house where I grew up in Logansport, Indiana , the less advantageous west side of town . Both of my parents, elementary school t...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

I Refuse to Recognize Jay Jones as Virginia AG

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  Elections have consequences. That is the appreciation I have had for the American election system my entire life- until today. Despite my ...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Rediscovering My Wanderlust With Road Scholar

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  I’ve been privileged to experience international travel since childhood with my preliminary adventures including Juarez, Mexico and Windso...
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....