Tonight, I sat with a stranger and used Google translate to have a conversation, and it was wonderful. As you may know if you’ve been following my FB posts, I had to have emergency surgery 3.5 weeks ago, and my partner had a planned surgery 2.5 weeks ago. He can’t walk at all, and I could barely walk until this…
Once again, I can’t like, share, comment, or interact with my friends on facebook for 2 days. I keep trying to communicate with Meta support, but they are rude, dismissive, and they refuse to even acknowledge the information I have been sending to them. I keep getting locked out of my account for literally no reason at all, and then…
I saw a series of posts from someone lashing out due to her mental health. The posts triggered me. Instead of offering unsolicited advice like a douchebag, or saying something that might have made her feel worse in the moment because I barely know her and she already feels terrible, I stayed in my own lane and reposted this on…
Votes for women in the USA were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward…
Several years ago, I read a book called Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.This book tells the story of some of the courageous women who literally fought until the day they died so that you and I (ladies, that is) could have the right to vote. One of my proudest moments was…
As published in the Ripon Commonwealth Press, Issue Number 40, on Thursday, October 10, 2010. To the Editor: Voting is a Grave Responsibility (Re: “Feingold has a special plan for America… but Johnson doesn’t,” Ripon Commonwealth Press, August 19, 2010) I couldn’t agree more with Ann when she says that voters should do some research to gather facts on each candidate…
As printed in the Berlin Journal Newspapers and affiliates on Thursday August 12th, 2010. Volume 32
Archived for Posterity: We’ll drink to that by Steve Prestegard Originally published in Marketplace Magazine on 7-16-2010 Washington Post columnist George F. Will recalls Prohibition, and not fondly (nor should he): Daniel Okrent’s darkly hilarious Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition recounts how Americans abolished a widely exercised private right — and condemned the nation’s fifth-largest industry — in order to…
TO THE EDITOR: written by Jessica Struzik to the Ripon Press newspaper. (Re: “Don’t get high – get real,” July 1st, 2o10) I agree that our country and our world are in turmoil, and that there is serious work to be done. However, I do not believe that fear gives us the right to take rights away from people who…
Printed in the Ripon Commonwealth Press, Issue No. 26 on Thursday, July 1st, 2010. The contest to represent Ripon residents and others who live in state Assembly District 41 looks to involve the candidacies of at least two individuals with farm-related interests. The incumbent, Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, is a co-owner of Ballweg Implement, a John Deere dealership that she…