Posts by the Roaring Ellie
Law and Order
The following are excerpts from a Newsweek article dated March 2018: “While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities,” De León told The Sacramento Bee in a statement. “Ms. Mateo is a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful…
Read MoreTime Out
I spend a great deal of time looking at Facebook; more in the winter months than summer, but overall, too much time. I scan posts similarly to how I used to read the newspaper while riding the train in to work. But I’m not riding the train going somewhere. I’m sitting – allowing my time…
Read MoreWidowed
For twelve weeks I have been attending Grief Share, a grief counseling series of sessions designed to help navigate the loss of a loved one. The loss can be anyone significant. For me, it was the loss of my husband, Bobby. Bobby was diagnosed with a terminal illness in January 2016 and despite the very…
Read MoreHelp Wanted!
At the mature age of 61, I have read a great deal of job postings in my time. With the announcement of TEN Democratic candidates throwing their hats into the ring for the Presidential election of 2020, I began to wonder what exactly is the criteria for running for president of the United States. Brace…
Read MoreWhere’s Your Empire?
There have not been many people on either side of the political aisle who have not felt the level of discontent in the United States. On the Left, we have those who feel that Trump’s removal from the white house would solve ALL of their problems. On the Right, we have those who believe that…
Read MoreSorry Bob
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots publicly apologized after being charged with two counts of solicitation in connection to a prostitution sting in Florida. His apology follows this piece. My position on solicitation with prostitutes is that if the two parties are “consenting adults” the side note of it actually being a business…
Read MoreSitting Ducks
“I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” George W. Bush Those words resonate with me as if they were just spoken. I was not a follower of George Bush during the election, but on that fateful…
Read MoreGod’s Plan
As some of you know, I have been attending a Grief Share counseling for the past 10 weeks (two more to go before completion). It is held at a church but there are many of them held in varying locations all over. But today’s thought comes to me on the heels of these meetings –…
Read MoreCritical Thinking
Did you ever have a discussion about where to go out to eat and the suggestions that are being made are for restaurants that serve food you don’t like? It’s not a simple, “Well, ok – let’s go.” It ‘s a full out discussion up to and including an argument. How about meeting someone who…
Read MorePop Goes the King
There is hardly a child who lived during Michael Jackson’s reign over pop that would not have given his/her eye teeth to meet him. From the first time I saw him on the Ed Sullivan show, December 14, 1969 I was completed and utterly enchanted with his musical talent. Songs of the Jackson Five were…
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