Today I voted. And perhaps for the very first time, both my spouse and I held the Democratic party line like our life depended on it. We researched every candidate on the 4 page ballot to see if any had an affiliation with MAGA or the man in the White House. If so, we said no thank you. But before you raise your ire and denounce us as purely partisan, let me tell you we weren’t always this way. In fact, our past ballots reflected a variety of parties, based on candidates character and their voting record. Hard to even fathom such a practice since the Republican party was kidnapped by such extremists. You know, those people who decimated and defecated within our Capital under Trump’s orders. You know, those same people the President pardoned. They are still doing his bidding aided by a partisan Supreme Court, Senate, House of Reps, DOJ, and endless cabinet positions, each sycophant saying yes, yes, yes to his inane craziness.
Is outrage the best we can hope for?
Yes, my old post, Rape Fantasies, is disturbing to read. Because yes, rape is not a topic anyone looks for, yet here we are, I will not say again, for abuses are happening continuously to women, and children, and they will continue for the foreseeable future because, well for starters, we have a convicted felon in the White House who publicly bragged, “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.” Despite his obvious perverse and vile character, he was elected, twice, primarily by men (55% of men voted for Trump in 2024). His presence alone can’t be responsible for the fact that “Nearly half of all U.S. women (45.1%) have experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetimes. Additionally, reports compiled by the CDC indicate that 1 in 4 women experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lives” (CDC). Where do we draw the line if this mountain of abuse towards women is ever going to change? Cornell, maybe, is about to find out…
I know what you are thinking
I know what you are thinking: Is she really going to post about her debut novel, Crazy String, that was published in July, again? Well yes, maybe, simply, because it was 7 months of back and forth emails and notes and suggestions and edits and rewrites and font decisions and cover designs and everything that goes into this act of publishing that is far far away from the solitary hours and years and imagination that formed around my initial ideas when I first met the core characters and felt their angst, their sorrow, their loves, their struggles but also the overwhelming crazy strings that held them together even when they were hellbent on getting clear across the continent and as far apart as possible. Yes, for all of that.
