I’ve been following the feeds from my friends on the ground in Sri Lanka, along with the news at the Times, CNN, etc. It certainly looks like almost entirely peaceful mass protests have finally driven a war criminal and his cronies out of power. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he will resign on July […]
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Thrilled to hear that one of my grad school classmates is running for their local school board in Arizona. I feel like I should get posters made. “Have *you* considered running for local office? America needs *you*!”
Illinois folks, it’s election day for us — please vote. And on that note, while I’ve been traveling, I haven’t yet had time to do thorough election research, so any pointers to good progressive voting guides would be very helpful. VERY.
IL library board question — anyone know where I’d find info on childcare reimbursement for board members as an allowable expense? My understanding is that we aren’t allowed to pay our library board members by state statute, but that costs related to board service are reimbursable. Not sure where to look for the specifics on
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I’m at my parents’ house, in my old bedroom; the kids and I arrived here from NY last night. The last time I lived here, I was eighteen; I’m fifty now. In some ways nothing has changed, in some ways, everything. Since arriving, I’ve had conversations about the abortion ban with both my daughter and
Had a little bit of a rough night of poor sleep due to tummy troubles — I’m not sure what set those off, possibly greed. I’d made a really nice pork curry, tamarind-tangy and slow simmered with coconut milk yesterday afternoon, and couldn’t resist having some….even though I KNEW I had an event to go
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This is my “I’m home from the school board meeting and it’s only 9:30, maybe I’ll actually get to sleep at a decent hour” face. 3 hr meeting tonight, not bad.
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Kavi has a babysitting gig this morning — she’s done a tiny bit of babysitting before, pre-pandemic, but more as a mother’s helper, where the mom stayed in the home. Today is full-on babysitting, and I think she’ll do great; she really likes little kids, is very responsible, has done the YMCA babysitting course, etc.
Sigh — the ‘pink slime’ piece about our board meeting last week has made it to Snopes. I am sorry that Snopes had to take time to debunk this pernicious nonsense, but they did do a good job, and included some of my fellow board member Ralph Martire’s quotes, which help elucidate some of what
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