October 9, 2016
9:21 p.m.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling sick to my stomach, as I have for the past couple of days, I wonder if it's not a reaction to the political environment we've been subjected to for the past year.

(Maybe it really is--so far my doctors haven't found a difinitive answer!)

Whatever the cause, I can honestly say that this election is making me SICK!

What a freak show. Really. I grew up proud to be an American, and right now I want to tell strangers that I'm new to this place. This isn't even a lie--I AM new to this place. This is not the America I
grew up in.

I have children and grandchildren who are going to have to live and grow up in the environment that has been created here. I want to gather them up and run for the hills. Hide in the wilderness, build a windmill, plant some crops and hunt for deer.

(This is coming from a woman who is literally allergic to nature--I don't like it, but it's true--and who would prefer not to deal with meat before it's made available in the supermarket. I'll happily support my hunter friends' right to hunt, and just as happily share a steak with them, but I've never enjoyed the hunting myself. I'd rather stay in camp, make dinner and read, thanks.)

Having shared my little disclaimer, I would rather have to hunt for myself than live with some of the politicians we're entrusting with our futures.

And I am so, so sad right now knowing that people I thought were good Christians are endorsing a man who would call my daughters derogatory names, lust after my granddaughters and feel entitled to touch them without their permission. I have never heard such tripe in my life as the slurs this man has made against women. As a woman, a mother, a grandmother, etc., I have no tolerance for a man like this in any public place, let alone in the White House!

No one in public service has the right to call me, my daughters, my granddaughters or my friends fat pigs or suggest that we're too ugly to be whatever we want to be. He has no right to say that we have no right to protest sexual discrimination or sexual assault. He has no right to say that women deserve less pay than men because they will be less reliable due to needing to tend to their children. I personally held two and sometimes three jobs at a time while raising my children alone, and I was very reliable. And, by God, I raised some good kids!

God, I'm tired of this election. Talk about disappointments! (See my previous blog for more on disappointment.)

Thinking sad stuff. G'night!