While most of my family already has voted, I will be casting my ballot tomorrow, on Election Day, and I can’t wait. I love to line up with my neighbors, greet the hopefully busy poll workers, take my assigned number to retrieve my ballot, bring it to the box, grab the pen and, carefully, work [...]
Tag: Presidential elections
Feeling the Bern and weighing the vote
If the worst parts about living in a battleground state are the phone calls and television commercials (and they ARE!), the best parts are the personal visits from the candidates themselves. Yesterday, Molly and her dad waited in line for more than three hours to hear what Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders had to say. [...]
On yard signs and candidates we deserve
We placed the only yard sign we plan to display during this contentious political season. It reads "You are beautiful." Because you are. You are busy and impatient sometimes, and maybe you roll through the stop sign in front of our house. You work hard and occasionally snack too much. You don't always remember to [...]