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November 22, 2024
Life, Loss, and Puffins ~~ Book Review
Life, Loss, and Puffins by Catherine Ryan Hyde is beyond profound. It is a story and a philosophy of life all rolled into one glorious novel. This reviewer had to read it twice, it is so DELICIOUS!
Two ‘throw-away’ kids seek their own path. Brave enough, even though Ru is very young and ‘freakishly smart’ and Gabriel wears eyeliner and nail polish, they navigate a harsh world to follow a dream…to see, in person, the Aroura Borealis. Driving from California to the Arctic Ocean with hardly enough gas money, much less food and lodging … the trip is no easy feat. And as they drive they form an unbreakable bond, or so Ru believes.
I recommend readers find a quiet space, a warm drink at hand, and their
COMPLETE ATTENTION. This is no ‘puff piece’. It delves into what we as humane beings, might believe or not believe. It will draw you in like a wisp of smoke until you are caught and then evaluating your own beliefs. But, please, don’t be put off by this….it’s a charming, heartwarming, lovely story that you will love!
THIS IS A MUST READ!
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November 15, 2024
New Short Play ~~ ‘Our Hands Are Tied’
Jumping right off the pages of today’s news. This powerful, short play tells
the story of one couple’s struggles to keep a wanted pregnancy. Joe stands helplessly by as his wife miscarries and healthcare providers can do nothing until she is near death’s door.
3f. 2m.
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November 8, 2024
My Opinion
Be careful what you wish for…. you may just get it.
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November 5, 2024
Americans Make History!
Americans across our great country are making their voices heard TODAY with their VOTE. One candidate offers us joy, happiness, and unity. While the other, a wanna-be DICTATOR, waits in the wings like some has-been aged actor, a grifter, a convicted felon, a circus barker.
I’m no pollster, no woman with a turban and a crystal ball, no statistic-wielding TV commentator. I AM A PERSON WITH PROFOUND AND UNSHAKABLE FAITH IN THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE…and
Our Democracy WILL HOLD! Because the price tag of a DICTATOR will be unimaginably high. And it will last FAR LONGER THAN FOUR YEARS!
For you folks that haven’t voted as yet. I suggest you
look at some clips of BOTH Candidates. LOOK IN THE EYES. HARRIS looks people in the eyes, hers glow with kindness and warmth. TRUMP’s eyes 
ARE DEAD. He rarely smiles and the grimace that passes for a smile never reaches his eyes.
He smirks, he frowns, he scoffs, he POUTS, he never smiles.
YOUR VOTE MATTERS TODAY!!
Love and hope, 
Trisha
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November 1, 2024
My Opinion ~~ VOTE !!!
This might be my final political opinion. Next Tuesday will be the day WE decide whether or not we want a man sitting in the Oval Office with an enemies’ list (that Trump has PROMISED to act upon) or a President who is sitting in the highest office in the land with a
TO-DO 
LIST! A to-do list that improves the average American family’s life.
Kamala Harris CRUSHED it with her speech on the Ellipse. Over 80,000 supporters turned up to support our next President. Her speech was joyful, optimistic and patriotic.
Donald Trump promises he will be American women’s protector, “whether WE like it or not.” Ewww! Eck! Thanks, Donald but I can think for myself and take care of myself.
The “deportation of millions of immigrants will be bloody.” Donald Trump promises.
BE HEARD! 
VOTE on TUESDAY, Nov. 5th.
Be a patriot with millions of other Americans and save our FREEDOM!
Love and hope,
Trisha
Childless Cat Lady
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October 25, 2024
My Opinion ~~ What Is A Fascist?
FASCIST
A movement or regime that exalts nation and race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader. It is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition. ~~
Webster’s Dictionary
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October 19, 2024
My Opinion: Trump Dances Through Questions at Town Hall
This is one way to dodge questions that Trump can’t answer. He doesn’t have the mental acuity to intelligently answer random questions he has not rehearsed. His choice of the song, ‘Ava Maria’ suggests Trump has a Jesus complex.
It might have been a fun music fest if ONLY the MAN COULD DANCE!
Later, he was quoted saying, all in one breath, “Lincoln (the President) could have negotiated with the South and avoided the Civil War…Ca-mal-la Harris will ban your cows…Harvey Weinstein got schlonged hard…he got schlonged so bad…” (schlong: noun, Hebrew, vulgar, slang for penis.)
Never used as a verb, did Trump mean Weinstein, the most flagrant sexual predator of our time, got f**ked? Dicked over by the court system? And Trump is expressing empathy for him?!
This thin-skinned man-baby, authoritarian bully went on to say, “Jan. 6 was a day of love”, “WE didn’t have guns, they.. the others had guns” “Nobody got killed”
See the AR-15 in the center of pic?FACT CHECK: Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6
HAD GUNS. Police radio recordings reports that at least two AR-15 rifles were spotted in the crowd of supporters hanging from trees and later marching to the capital. “Glocks in the waistbands of two men in the trees” at the rally.
“The others…” who had guns were law enforcement.
FACT CHECK: (Trump) “Nobody got killed.” One rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was killed when she tried to breach the barricaded doors to the Chamber of the House. One police officer (Brian Sicknick) died of his injuries by rioters. Four other police officers committed suicide in the days and months after the riot. At least SIX deaths occurred as a direct result of the insurrection.
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Trisha
Childless Cat Lady
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October 11, 2024
My Opinion ~~ A Traitor in Sheep’s Clothing
Silence is Complicity! I am not complicit! My s ilence has Ended! I cannot be silent any longer!
What’s with Trump’s constant ‘bad-mouthing’ our country? The latest reports of Trump’s traitorous behavior: 
During the height of the Pandemic, when hundreds were dying here in our country when no test kits and no ventilators and no cure were the norm for the day, Trump was SECRETLY sending test kits to HIS BUDDIE, PUTIN!
The other day Trump was giving a speech to the DETROIT Economy Club when he said, “Well, we’re a developing nation too, just take a look at Detroit. Detroit’s a developing area more than most places in China. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands.” THIS WHILE HE WAS IN DETROIT, SPEAKING TO A LOCAL ORGANIZATION! When was the last time you heard Trump praise this country?
Is this the person you want LEADING you and our country? If yes, I challenge you to watch several different news outlets. Get some true perspective. If you say to me, “I don’t watch the news” then you have no business voting at all because you are UNINFORMED!!
If your answer is ‘no, you don’t’ then I challenge you to get out there and DO SOMETHING! It doesn’t have to be BIG, do something small, like taking someone with you when you vote or help someone apply for an absentee
ballot.
If your answer is “I don’t know enough about it. I’m not interested in politics”. Well, You better be! You’re about to lose some if not all of your freedoms. Trump has promised us that he will be a dictator on day 1.
Okay, you’re not interest in politics, you’re uninformed, and you’re not going to vote. BUT, ARE YOU A PATRIOT? DO YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY? DO YOU HAVE A RELATIVE WHO DIED FOR THIS COUINTRY?
Then you must get informed and then vote. Be a patriot with millions of other Americans and save our FREEDOM!
Love and hope,
Trisha
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October 7, 2024
Haiku Honored at PoetrySoup.com
Dear Trisha,
Congratulations, this is just a quick notice to let you know that your poem
The Blues is one of the poems being featured on the PoetrySoup home page this week. Poems are rotated each day in groups of 14-16 to give each poem an equal opportunity to be displayed.
Thanks again and congratulations.
Sincerely,
PoetrySoup.com
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October 4, 2024
My Opinion ~~ There’s One in Every Family
Yes, I have at least one family member (who will remain unnamed) who is a 
‘Forever Trumper’. I know this, but I never give up. Periodically asking her if she’s seen the news lately, and what she thought after the latest gaff out of Trump’s mouth.
So here’s how it went the other day:
I asked my relative if she had seen the news in the last few days. She is a very independent woman and I was curious to see 
what she thought about her candidate, after Trump’s position on banning abortion and his comments that day on (His words) “Women will no longer be lonely, afraid and sad. You will be happy. You will be protected. I will be your Protector.”
Personally, my stomach flipped; at Trump’s words. I was physically sickened for a second.
So, I opened the conversation with my relative like this, “Did you watch the news?”
She replied: “No I don’t watch the news, I don’t have time.”
I next asked, “Are you still voting for Trump?”
My sweet, agreeable relative went from 0 to 60 in a nanosecond. She replied, raising her voice: “ABSOLUTELY! I would NEVER vote for that BITCH! She’s a COMMIE! She doesn’t know anything!”
The conversation that I’d hope to have (I never got a word in) devolved into her snapping and snarling at me. I was talking to a cult-member. She’d already drunk the Kool aide. It was too late.
“Hang Mike Pence.” “SO WHAT?”
I quickly and politely said I had to go, said goodbye and hung up.
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My Silence has Ended! I cannot be silent any longer!
Silence is Complicity! I am not complicit!
Love and hope,
Trisha
Childless Cat Lady
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