Latest Old Type Writer: Intuition and Instincts and Bumble Bees! Oh, My! Or "What happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep!"

Latest “Old Type Writer” column for Jennifer Zartman Romano’s Talk of the Town Whitley County. A timely and candid piece about politics and feminism and life in today’s America. A reflection of the cracked mirror headlines we all read every day:

http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewri...



Excerpt: “Listen up! Be your own person ... be yourself ... practice compassion ... never be cautious about demonstrating sincere kindness. None of us are earth-bound for very long ... and for that we can be oddly grateful and cheer on folks such as, need I reiterate, Hillary C., Nancy P., Courtney T., Dianne F., Debbie S., Maizie H., Amy K., Claire M., Elizabeth W., Maxine W., and Kamala H. and Anita H. and a dear soul named Meghan McCain who delivered an explosively no-holds barred, chastising eulogy proclaiming her love and admiration for her late war hero daddy whose very recent bravery on the Senate floor, killing an ill-conceived half-assed bill denying far too many citizens sufficient health care, impressed anybody with a heart. Like father like daughter! I can identify with that! Anybody wanna stop by my curb on the day I plan to place old, outdated, moldy PEOPLE Magazines, and probably high school yearbooks and brassieres, out for the trash man?”

Read here: http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewri...

Thank you to dear friend Liz Berry Schatzlein for this response to the column:

"This is a beautiful quote from a column by my friend, Susie Sexton: 'After living well into a seventh decade, if one is prohibited from telling it like it is or was, what then might be the point of ever having lived at all?' Some quotes just jump out and grab you, and this one grabbed me. It is truth, no matter what decade you're in, no matter how old you are. If your voice is stifled, privately or publicly, what is the point of it all?"



BRETT KAVANAUGH...A NEW MODEL FOR AN INTERESTING HUMMEL FIGURINE ADDITION. A LITTLE STATUE FOR 2018....I WOULD NOT BUY IT THOUGH...I'VE SEEN ENOUGH OF THE LITTLE FELLOW! #kavanaugh

Kavanaugh was surreal from the moment he took his leather swivel seat and nervously arranged and arranged and scooted and arranged his nameplate and then proceeded into his melt-downish primal over-long scream? But he is not surprising...rather, a template for the egotistical male we have all met and often know far too well!

And, finally, something my son Roy Sexton posted on Facebook yesterday. Perhaps there is hope for these next generations ...

"Watching the testimony yesterday, Kavanaugh did remind me of high school friends and college acquaintances and fraternity brothers and too many grown men I know today who blithely joke about alcoholism, who bluster, who bully, who barely contain their anger, who obfuscate and throw questions back at women instead of answering directly. So, yes, I’m afraid I DO know men like this. And I’m afraid I’ve not done enough to stop their entitlement, the darkest side of which can be rape, harassment, violence, and misogyny. And I’m sorry."



Watch a mash-up video of Brett Kavanaugh's testimony and "Pulp Fiction" https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/28/bret...‬



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