My goal is to finish two books a month and here are my two for February 2025. Both were audiobooks; I didn’t manage to finish any of the physical books I'm reading. I’ll blame that on the short month, rather than my chronic inability to focus on one book at a time.

To help myself stay sane, I've started a Substack. My first ever post went up yesterday. If you're interested, please check it out:
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Ughhh this is me and my husband.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮

#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

He shouldn't be admired, lauded, or emulated. He shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power. D.T. has and will do some truly awful things, but giving this train wreck of a person unlimited power will go down as one of the worst. Unfortunately, I fear he may outdo himself in the future.

Musk is everything that's wrong with the world. No empathy, no compassion, no humility. A weak, insecure child, enabled by sycophants, convinced of his own brilliance, and now doing everything he can to make the world a far worse place to be for anyone who isn't already insanely wealthy.

Elon Musk is a literal comic-book villain. Inherited wealth, bought his way into the tech world, made even more money by ignoring safety rules and regulations, and now openly embraces fascism and Naziism. And people will still grovel at his feet and pretend he's not an all-around terrible human.

78 degrees in Dallas today = long lunchtime walk

I've no sympathy whatsoever for voters who are SHOCKED to learn that Trump told them what they wanted to hear and now isn't keeping his promises. What planet have they been living on for the last decade? This is what he does Every. Single. Time. They played themselves and have no one else to blame.

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

"DEI," as used by the President and his ilk, is just shorthand for "non-white men." It's racism and sexism all rolled into one term. It's the same way they use "woke" to mean anything they don't like. It's the new bogeyman.

Source: I actually took a course and have a certification in DEI.

#DEI

I am trying to read two books per month in 2025, and these are my January reads. I’m a huge sci-fi fan - my unfinished novel is a sci-fi story- so both my selections are from that genre. Short reviews to follow...

#bookreview #adesolationcalledpeace #beacon23

I'm staunchly anti-Nazi, and I don't think that should be a controversial position. Similarly, I won't vote for or support anyone who ISN'T staunchly anti-Nazi. There are very few bright moral lines in the real world, but this is one of them. And it's very easy to know which side we should be on.

Most commonly used phrases this year:

"I told you so"

"I tried to warn you"

“This power structure, which has become institutionalized, has put people with no empathy, no risk assessment and extremely poor understanding of the world in charge of our governance and our knowledge with predictably disastrous results.”

- Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

#booksky

This is what we all should remember.

“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.”

“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”

“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”

“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”

Pause.

“I needed to make a statement.”