Okay, it is getting close to take off for my 'road trip with doggie'.  I am really getting excited.  i may run into some kinda weather, and have to stay longer somewhere than planned, but it'll be all good.

hmmmm the date now is April 2015...and I don’t know why we woulda been on yet another road trip at this time???  

anyhoot...nada...no trip, road or other!!  ;-\

so...starting on my cross-country road trip on 12/2/2013....so if you have no interest in OLD posts, ignore them.  I would start a new blog just for the trip, but why?  I like the crap in this one, and if you have no interest, don't read the old posts.

Today is WEDNESDAY November 27, 2013, day before Thanksgiving.. all day i've been packing/moving stuff, to prepare to go to Ader's for dinner/people/stuff for tomorrow.  Hoping Nate will spend a nite or two with me before i take off for 3 months...

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Hi to anyone out there interested in my BS

I am living the life many people will ONLY be able to dream of.  It is wonderful.  I do only what i want to do, when i want to, how, where, and WHY i want to.  Too bad i didn't have this luxury when i was, uh, say....45?  now THAT would have been interesting.....at this age, i'm rather afraid to go 'out' there and enjoy the life i feel inside...assholes would look at me like i'm an old weirdo....ugh (too bad we have to care about that kinda shit).  That age would have been perfect had i realized what i realize today....women do not need men.  Why did it take so long.  If you have kids and raise them to an age where they are human (actually, sitter-free and trustworthy)  you can go on to be anything, do anything, love the life and not be dependent on some asshole to make you WHOLE!!!  HELLO!  It is, in fact, likely better for the children if the father-figure is an asshole.

I think the last time I posted to my blog it was about my cross country trip.  Was quite a thing.
(I do love my blog: i just reviewed the history....OMG....there are so many things)

So....this is going to be a post about how I feel about the Civil Rights (50 year anniversary of same) Act.

THE 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CIVIL RIGHTS, SIGNED INTO LAW BY LBJ.  JULY 23, 1964
(Ader and I recently attended the Bryan Cranston play, "All The Way", the story of LBJ signing the act into law.)

Granted, this law was important and necessary to bring into focus how America was treating some citizens!  Come on!  I don't see color of skin, I only see personalities of people....lives of people....things people do....but I grew up in Southern California.  There were no black folks in the town I grew up in, nor in the town my Mom and Dad, Grandmas and Grandpas grew up in.....they in Iowa, me in California.  We didn't see the horrible things that went on with black people.  We certainly would have wondered why the hell it was happening.  So LBJ signed into law something that would change the way 'they' should be treated from now on.

30 years later (1994) :
I am living in Washington, DC.  I am working with folks who were unquestionably affected by the Civil Rights Laws, here in the South.  WHAT?  Who knew DC was in the 'South'?  I certainly had no idea.  I missed that whole 'back of the bus'; 'white bathroom'/'black bathroom'; 'white drinking fountain'/black drinking fountain' thing...Did I live in a dream world?  I was never affected by any lack of civil liberties...I lived in Southern California.  We knew there were blacks but we never heard/saw bad things.  I vaguely remember the story about the black kids sitting at the drug store counter (now in the Smithsonian) and a big deal being made about it....but I didn't understand why.  We went to school with Mexicans who didn't speak English until they were in school.  We didn't mind, they were our friends.

Living in DC, I had no choice but to figure it out....There is still quite an attitude here.  There are signs in front of properties that say 'Reparation NOW'.  Evidently meaning compensation is wanted for the years their relatives spent in slavery 200 years ago.

to be continued

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