I Am Amused...

I support Bernie Sanders for President, and I want you to know why... I am almost 48, married for nearly 20 years. I have four children. I have a BA in Political Science and my Juris Doctorate. I have studied politics since I was a little kid. It is more than a hobby of mine. I was taught by my parents the importance of being an aware and active citizen. I have worked in politics since 1988, in field, finance, and management. I have even run for office. I am passionate about good government and electing the right person to office. All my life I have made compromises. I have voted for the lesser of two evils. Hell, I have worked for the lesser of two evils. Not this time. When I got married in 1996 we were living in New Mexico. Anyone who knows NM knows that we have been at the bottom of every good list and the top of every bad list since lists ranking the plight of citizens by state have been kept. New Mexico is the canary in the coal mine, in my opinion. We are the fir

Where to begin? I guess I will start with why I started this blog. It's a long story. A long time ago I blogged all the time. I was a mom, working part time, with four young children at home. I was living out in the wilderness, isolated and frustrated, and my blogs were my connection to the adult world. I loved it. Then I went back to school, in January 2009. I had this dream, from the time I was four years old, to become a lawyer. I still had a couple of years to finish my BA, which I did. Then I went to law school. Graduated in 2014. I stopped writing and reading for pleasure. I felt all bottled up. My journey to the bar exam was rough. I postponed it because I had to deal with my mom's death during my 3L year, emotionally and financially. This is a strictly bare boned accounting, shit got real. I took the bar a year after graduating, last July, and flunked it. I took it again this week. I feel pretty good about it, but who knows, right? I made a decision