Posts by the Roaring Ellie
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
For the past few months, I have received daily requests for money. The Trump campaign asks (typically) for $10. These requests come as emails, texts and occasionally even US mail. I am also receiving requests from Harris with the same sentiment. Just $10 to help us defeat Donald Trump. This entire process (from both sides)…
Read MoreSign on the Dotted Line
This is nothing new, but I have just reached my breaking point with electronic signature pads. I grew up learning how to print and then in second grade, write in script (not cursive – script). Over the years I cultivated my “signature” which was the closest thing I had to an original brand for myself.…
Read MoreHappy Anniversary Grampa John
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show years ago. She described how (in real life) her authoring the book and subsequently selling the rights to the book to a movie studio earned her (in her words) a bazillion dollars. At that time, she had two close friends who were…
Read MoreThe Two Percent
My birthday was this past weekend. It’s my favorite time of year on Facebook, largely because I hear from all the people who are my friends; the people I know personally. The entire rest of the year my feed is inundated with memes, advertisements and tiktok snippets that despite my resistance mesmerize me and capture…
Read MoreCancel Culture
Ben Franklin – Insurance Pioneer Although the idea of insurance has existed for thousands of years and dates all the way back to ancient Greece – when merchants purchased a type of insurance against possible loss of cargo due to bad weather at sea – the insurance industry as we know in the United States…
Read MoreMy Ode to Phil
I cannot recall the exact time I began watching the Phil Donahue show, but it was sometime in the 70’s. After only one show, I was completely absorbed and rarely missed another. It was my first real love affair with a talk show, and I was hooked. Phil Donahue had a way of educating without…
Read MoreTo Be or Not to Be – Indivisible?
Indivisible is defined as unable to be divided or separated. In this piece, it denotes that which appears in our Pledge of Allegiance. The first version was written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who later authored a book on how to teach patriotism to children in public…
Read MoreLook Who’s Talking
Over the years, I have found it curious that public servants earning two hundred thousand dollars per year (or less) could definitively command a net worth of several million dollars. I began chasing this information to satisfy my own curiosity. Salaries for public officials were increased by Trump while in office. Those change became effective…
Read MoreBait and Switch
Spanning the Globe bringing you the constant variety of sports. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports. That intro came into use in 1978. It’s inspiration: A ski jumper by the name of Vinko Bogataj from the former Yugoslavia, described…
Read MoreThe Last (supper) Straw
· Whether a loyal fan or an occasional watcher, the Olympics is a draw for all viewers around the world. This year’s 2024 Olympics is taking place in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was seen by some 28.6 million viewers, many of whom then took to their keyboards and began expressing discontent over the drag…
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