Monthly Archives: October 2020

Debate Night Finale

Posted on October 24, 2020 by PB Rippey

This time, you feed your tween at the kitchen table, not in his bedroom, perhaps because it is the last ‘debate’, hopefully the last time a thug will have the opportunity to one-on-one malign a better man in front of … Continue reading →

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A Voter’s Tale

Posted on October 23, 2020 by PB Rippey

Sunday morning, after obsessively researching my local candidates and measures, filling in my mail-in ballot, packing it in its envelope, I turned the envelope over, moistened the seal with a sponge, pressed the seal home, grabbed a pen and: SIGNED … Continue reading →

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Debate: Part 2 (Fly Edition)

Posted on October 14, 2020 by PB Rippey

That you feel total confidence about the evening’s outcome irks you because you know from experience (parties, weddings, Masterpiece Theatre, vacations thwarted by pandemics) that 100% confidence only invites disaster. You zoom to the grocery store for comfort-food ingredients and, … Continue reading →

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BP 148/80 (VOTE EDITION)

Posted on October 5, 2020 by PB Rippey

You make dinner early for your small, by American family standards, family–a guy, your tween-guy you would die for, and you–except you shove your dinner portion into the freezer. And hurry upstairs. HERE! you declare with a carny-smile and bowlful … Continue reading →

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