I have a new computer and nothing is making sense on this thing. This is supposed to be a post but instead it is coming up on the heading screen as an option. Well this is how us “elderly” are navigating this world these days. I am currently sitting in a closet that I have converted into my own little “office” of sorts. How wonderful to have a closet of this size at this age that isn’t filled with clothes that I don’t ever wear.

Currently John and I share one closet with everything we own in it. It also includes extra comforters, blankets, winter coats, my dresses and his suits that we rarely wear, dress shoes and some “medical supplies”. We have downsized several times. Each time being very traumatic. I hate using that word because “trauma” is a big buzz word these days and one person’s trauma can be another person’s picnic. But this really was traumatic stuff. Me being in a frenzy and tying up every loose end and John being in shut down and no big deal mode but really traumatized all the same. Each move was a reality check of where we were in life, all heading down “the home stretch”.

Here it is Spring 2026 and we are ever gaining steam toward the freakin mid-term elections which people are seeing as a do or die for “democracy” this year. If the Republicans take it again, it means they control the House and the Senate. If there is a break in the voting and the Democrats can win a few seats, then supposedly we return to a system of checks and balances, or a complete stalemate where zero gets done. Maybe that’s what we need at this point (?)