At a time when America has a right foot stuck in the congealed mores of the 1950s and a tentative left toe dipping into what is becoming the boiling stew of the 1960s, a chance meeting of two accomplished young women—Dr Sidai Ackroyd (at left) and Willow Benton—becomes a love affair for the ages.

Democratic Socialism is when there is no capitalism and the proletariat controls business and industry; what we and Scandinavian countries already have is a Socialist Democracy where government regulates capitalism. Please get it right!

White supremacy has been a core foundation of conservative, white politics since 1619. Black folks have done nothing to deserve this. This is from my novel that is set in 1963 Seattle, The Long Run To Love (thebookcommentary.com/review-previ...)

Who? This guy?

Outside our front door on a summer day in Pennsylvania. Makes it hard to understand why the ideology of toxic masculinity still holds sway in our fragile, beautiful world.❤️

Mufasa Marvin of the Neighborhood

Evidence that our world-hated President provided the motivation that a good team may not have needed but motivation that fueled an overwhelming performance. I hope Trump gets a welcome from NATO today that he truly deserves.

Peter Bart grokipedia.com/page/Peter_B... told me in 1992 never to write a novel with the hope of making a dime, so I’ve only been writing novels since then for the joy of it! flodombey.com

I write for the joy of doing it, which is a good thing because I have zero marketing skills & have no “friends/connections” in publishing. I do have a few books that earned 5-Star reviews from Book Commentary or Self-publishing Review. If you’d like to read one, check my website flodombey.com. Thx

Immediately on my left as I’m enjoying supper in our sun room … until I remember how fortunate I am compared to earthquake victims, victims of war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine, victims of disease and starvation due to Trump’s not so subtle, ethnic cleansing of the world’s poor …

My 78-year-old, non-scientific-sample-of-one has led me to conclude that the power of Christian Nationalism comes from the ignorance encouraged by Evangelical Christianity. If Jesus walked the earth today, I believe he would be weeping at the hatred of “the other” being perpetrated in his name

This from Pulitzer Prize winner Edith Wharton’s “Age of Innocence” (1920) … (Flo: Never been easy to make a living writing books. www.reddit.com/r/selfpublis...)

I’m a registered Democrat still frustrated about the Dem Elite snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2016, and now I’m frustrated by the continuing fecklessness of Dem Party Leadership. Here’s a post from 2021 i just encountered today that suggests why …