We the people, but they the people too

If you’ve been watching the news since Jan. 20, depending on your politics, the world is 1) finally burning 2) unnecessarily burning with the aid of a powerful accelerant.

Out of about 150 posts here in the last 2+ years, I’ve written about politics around 5 times, and I really don’t want this to become a primary space for that, if only for my own sanity, but also because I want readers to be able to take a break from the constant barrage of negativity and, as of late, the horror, the horror. But it does seem like the apocalypse is nigh, and I want to do something, anything -and so if I write about politics I’ll tag it as such and you can skip it if it’s not your thing. Or, you can leave a comment here berating me.

Recently I wrote a commentary for Minnesota’s Star Tribune as a response to the chaos caused by the new administration. I’ve pasted it below (it’s funnier than what follows here).

In order to think through things, and to get through things emotionally, it helps for me to write about them. Half or more of my writing, I think, is just me giving me a pep talk and trying to work out a solution to some angst or another (A blank white screen, for me, has always been the best therapist).