SheilaScribbles
my thoughts on life
For some unknown reason we have started receiving The Wall Street Journal at our house. Last week we received it on Thursday, Friday, and then the Saturday/Sunday edition. Sometime in the early morning hours it landed in our driveway. Monday, no paper. I thought, “okay, they’ve discovered their mistake”. Then yesterday, Wednesday, it showed up …
I worked today, it is “Labor Day” after all (ha ha, my feeble attempt at humor). I work at a private college and we held classes and all the offices were open. In spite of that, it was a pretty quiet day and still sort of managed to feel like a holiday. That was good, …
It all started with a stop at Hardee’s on the way to the beach. Caravaning in two cars (I got rid of my mini-van last fall), we stopped for lunch at a Hardee’s. My husband loves to have in-depth, thought provoking conversation with our kids, so he asked their opinion about how EBT cards should be …
Hashtags can be a powerful tool in this society. My Facebook and Twitter feeds are currently filled with #alllivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, and now #bluelivesmatter. I see passion and pain behind all of them, I support all of those. The climate we live in makes me, a middle-aged, middle-class, white woman, hesitant to speak out. I feel …