Blogging Reigns Me In Until I Feel Like Bursting

 

Blogging has an “anything goes” reputation. Bloggers are known to go off on extreme tangents and tell you exactly what they think. Sometimes anonymous, sometimes angry, blogging has traditionally been known as ranting.

For me, blogging is the opposite. Sometimes around elections I feel like I’m going to burst.

Through the years, I’ve never been one to tell people how to vote. Often people ask me, even on Election Day, when they show up at the poles and [...]

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Living With the Political Enemy

One day my friend asked me how I could be married to my husband. After ten years in a support group for our children, we have shared many intimate details of our daily lives. Her unease didn’t stem from abuse or any other serious concern, but rather the fact that my husband and I belong to different political parties.

Since no one had ever blatantly asked me this question, my answer wasn’t very savvy. I stumbled [...]

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