by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog
I am so glad to be home. No moon, so the sky is like black crystal. The Milky Way looks like a gossamer shawl thrown over Heaven’s shoulders. The longer I look the more stars seem to appear. There are the big, bold ones trying to see who can throw the most light, and then the small, shy ones peeping out from behind them like elf children. There is a soft breeze carrying the scent of piñon and juniper, and making the trees sigh and dip. My wind chimes are singing to each other. ...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog
**************************************************************HERE BE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!***************************************************************************************** Saturday night I took myself off to the Cinepolis to see the new X-Men film rejoicing in the rather ominous title X-Men: Apocalypse. I’ve greatly enjoyed X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past. I’ve been a big James McAvoy fan and Fassbender is perfect as young Magneto so this wasn’t going to be a hardship....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog
If only it were a delicious frothy drink. Or a fun game to be played at picnics. But it’s not. The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) was the secret police of East Germany. The organization that had neighbors spying on neighbors and citizens reporting each other. It’s a common creation of authoritarian states. Stalin had the NKVD. Nazi Germany had the Gestapo. I wonder what President Trump will call his secret police? Here are a couple of quotes from the presumptive...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
I’m still trying to process yesterday’s horror. What I can’t understand is the retreat to the political corners and simplistic binary choice — it’s either guns or it’s terrorism. As the President pointed out this morning in his statement from the Oval Office — it can be both. It is both. In fact it’s a three dimensional mess because it’s also blatant homophobia. Yes, this gunman had been self-radicalized. Yes it was ridiculously easy for...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog
When I was five or six grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a jockey. They laughed at me and told me “girls can’t be jockeys”. When I was ten grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said an astronaut. They laughed and me and said, “girls can’t be astronauts”. When I was thirteen or fourteen grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said President of the United States. They laughed at me and said,...
