by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 26, 2020 | Blog
2020 was the year where we lost two giants who led in the pursuit of justice and a more perfect union. Representative John Lewis who fought for civil rights and voting rights to the point of shedding blood and nearly dying on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg who fought for women’s rights and fought gender discrimination for her entire life. It’s daunting to realize that it’s only been 100 years since women gained the right to vote, and in 1920 that franchise...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 5, 2020 | Blog
I don’t often do this, but in this “splendid” Covid isolation I don’t have anyone to talk this out with so I’m going to pour it out on the page. Typical writer, right? So on Wednesday evening a lovely family came and took away the sort-of-antique-beds that were in the casita. The bed I had in Los Angeles will be coming back to New Mexico and I decided a queen with a really good Tempur-Pedic mattress was a better choice for any guests I might have once the plague...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 8, 2020 | Blog
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke We are where we are — 76,740 dead from Covid-19 — because of the cowardice of putatively good men, brave men, intelligent men, patriotic men. Where is Rex Tillerson who reputedly called Trump a “fucking moron”? You have anything to say? Where is General Mattis who said Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader,”, and ultimately resigned, but now refuses to speak out about what he has...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
Personal anecdote to indicate just how badly Trump & his administration botched the response to Covid 19. I’m a news junkie, I read the Post, the Times, Guardian, I watch the news, probably too much. I was aware of the outbreak of a new virus in China, but erroneously thought it was a flu. I know not to listen to a damn thing Trump says, but I (wrongly) assumed that the CDC or NIH would give us accurate information. What I missed was that Trump had throttled them. So I went about my...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
I get it. Many of us are terrified that we’re witnessing the final days of the American experiment. We fear another four years of Donald Trump will result in the end of the Republic and the slide into autocracy… or worse. So those of us who frequent the inter-webs, and play around with social media have set aside the cute cat videos, and kids doing adorable things, and are talking politics. A lot. But we’re not doing it very well. Or at least a subset of us aren’t. Because this feels like the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog
Okay, there are going to be SPOILERS so please don’t read this if you haven’t seen the film, and SPOILERS make you nuts. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Any of you...
