Category 4 Hurricane Harvey just hit the Texas coastline near Corpus Christi. Predictions are for over 36 inches of rain and a storm surge of 12 feet. It's the most catastrophic storm to hit the US in over a generation. The governor of Texas has already declared a state of emergency in 30 counties.
So while the country is riveted by the news of this impending disaster, what is 45 doing?
Pardoning Sheriff Arpaio, the racist sheriff from Arizona who used racial profiling, put prisoners out in the desert and was convicted of contempt of court. Disgusting, but expected from the racist monster we have in the White House. He is the most divisive, harmful president ever in history.
This comes after a Nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA last week where one woman was killed and nineteen were injured when a white supremacist drove his car through a crowd of counter protesters. Trump equivocated and said there were good people among the crazed white crowd supremacist crowd and placed equal blame for the violence on the counter protesters. Can't believe the KKK, Nazis and militia were marching through the streets chanting, "Jews will not replace us" and "Blood and Soil."
Sick, sick, sick times. Unprecedented, dangerous and terrifying.
Too much has happened in the past three weeks to write about. Now that I've let the daily entries go, I have lost the discipline to keep going with this blog. It will end sometime in October when the book is published.
Yes, it will be released in October, after just nearly nine years of work. On Monday, I submitted the edits for mock up number 8! This weekend, I'll do more work on the cover and back cover text.
On Monday, August 21, we celebrated our 46th anniversary. I probably already wrote about how momentous August 21 is. On that day in 1970, I finished college and got my first teaching position. In 1971, we got married. In 2000, my mom died. This year, there was a solar full eclipse and we got tickets for Hamilton! Yep! On June 1, 2018, we'll be seeing the most acclaimed musical ever!
As for swimming, I am at 72 miles, far behind last year's tally. That's life. I can't do any more this year with all the other things I'm juggling.
So, more to come in the next few weeks and then, the blog will end.
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