by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 9, 2016 | General
I have been living in fear for months and last night my fears were realized. Here’s what I fear is coming: The climate change accord rejected. Planned Parenthood defunded so no more cancer screenings and birth control for low income women. The ACA repealed. Millions without health care once again. The nuclear agreement with Iran revoked. A new Supreme Court that may well overturn Obergefell granting gay people the right to marry. What happens to those couples and their children? And...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 5, 2016 | General
This is long so I apologize for that. It’s also a post that I hesitated to write because I’m very private person, and I’m telling you a lot about myself. But I think this election is just that important that I’m willing to open up. So here goes — I’m younger than Secretary Clinton, but I want to give you a look at how the world appeared and still often appears to a woman. Especially a woman who is driven, ambitious, smart and educated. I’ve talked about being...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 22, 2016 | General
I recently posted on Facebook a link to a story out of Texas about students walking out of an anthropology class over the discussion that modern humans evolved in Africa. I got push back that this was unfair to Texas, on overblown story because only a small number of students walked out of a class of 390, etc. Then I realized that what disturbed me about the story is that there is a percentage of our American citizenry who is truculent, ill informed, proud of that lack, and suspicious of...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 18, 2016 | About Writing
Reality is so damn unforgiving. I’m working on the third book of the IMPERIALS Saga, and one of my main character is the heir to the throne. Her aides aren’t going to let her go into actual combat unless it’s absolutely unavoidable, and she’s not stupid enough to lead the charge. She’s also now an admiral in command of a large battle group that’s going in to rescue some captured soldiers. So, she’s on the bridge, giving orders and others are...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 9, 2016 | General
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797). I first heard this quote while watching a performance of the musical 1776. The representative from Georgia, Dr. Lyman Hall, was sent to the Continental Congress with the instruction not to vote for independence. After listening to John Adams passionate cry of “Is Anybody There?” he quotes the line...
