New Shoes in the Rain

Happy Friday, one and all. We’ve almost made it to a hard-won weekend! Before I go further, let me express my hope that everyone who visits here is safe and dry, given the severe weather some parts of our country have experienced.  I have been fortunate throughout my life not to have experienced a disaster like the recent hurricanes, so I am certainly thankful for that. So I stopped by this morning because, as the kids say (sorry, when you are in your 60s that applies pretty frequently), I did a thing yesterday. Over the past few years my travels have caused my approach to on-the-road entertainment to evolve somewhat.  Part of it was buying our newest car, which is equipped with a dedicated connection for your phone to then play the contents of that phone via the car audio system.  Another part of it is that I rent cars for about half of my travel weeks, when the distance is such that I want to keep those miles off my car. But the real reason I did what I did was that it was time for a

By my rough count we’re five weeks out from Election Day, and probably another week from learning who the winner of this highly unusual campaign will be. I don’t think anyone who visits here regularly doubts that my allegiance is with Vice President Harris, as it was for President Biden previously.  We have benefited from steadiness and experience in the White House and our economy has shown the positive effect of this leadership for quite some team.  Lest we forget, the country also had to come out of the worst period of COVID spread before any of this would be possible, and while former President Trump green-lighted the development of our vaccines, his administration really wasn’t able to do much in terms of distribution, so the Biden team did that as well. I bring this up because the hate and dishonesty and downright absurd accusations about nearly everyone by Mr. Trump have apparently kept some people from fully embracing the possibility of electing our first female President.  The