Well, I’ve succumbed to the disease that all writers of series are prone to being infected with, namely being unable to end the series! Helen’s Concerto was a perfectly good ending of the Helen series (even if I could make a few edits that would make it really a fantastic book in its own right). But I wanted to depict how the couple handle the perfect storm which has been our lives the last few years.
I had remembered writing roughly 45 pages of the new book, but I was wrong! I had actually written 53 pages. (I know; not a huge deal, but as lethargic as I am now, this is a big difference.)
Kay
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What exciting times we live in, eh?
The ex-president, whose stock has declined so badly among the so-called "College-educated" voters (and I wish they would not make such a fuss about this description, and, by implication, the others) is trying to regain the spotlight in the GOP. It is both amusing and sad to see the GOP scrambling to both signal its approval of Trump, and to distance itself, just in case there is more embarrassment to follow. (They do seem to be embarrassment-proof.)
The GOP is trying its level best to ensure that anyone not voting for the GOP has a tough time coming to the polls, and voting. I think there is a sort of vague justice in that. They're making sure that only those who really want to vote, and are determined, can vote. I think inhuman obstacles should be outlawed, (such as polling lines that stretch for many blocks) but insisting on proper ID, for instance, is very reasonable.
The much-sought Tax Returns have been released, and unless I'm much mistaken, it shows that our former president was not a very careful businessman. But that seems to be the way American Business is run; you don't have to have collateral, if you can put up a good front! One of these days I must try to put up a good front, and borrow enough to buy some stocks; that Dow-Jones average is going crazy!
The Texas governor seems to be a very silly gentleman. If not for the vaccines that may slightly offset the foolishness of the Texas pandemic policy, we could see an enormous spike in infections, which the big-hearted Texans are sure to share with the rest of us. I just can't believe how casually Conservatives write off their elderly relatives who are confined to nursing homes. It is as if these senior citizens are already dead, for all the consideration they receive from the GOP rank and file. To be placed in a nursing home has become tantamount to a death sentence. So has any sort of incarceration. It is shameful.
Andrew Cuomo's indiscretions have come back to bite him. This sort of behavior is nothing in the GOP. Among the Democrats, you would be expected to resign, like Al Franken, or something equally punishing. Times are changing, and you just can't go about behaving like a drunk supreme court justice anymore.
Kay
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