Dear President Biden, Congratulations on the (still theoretical) bipartisan agreement on the hard infrastructure package. Hopefully Mitch McConnell won’t find a way to torpedo it and hopefully all of the Democrats will hold together to support it. I know there’s a lot more sausage making that’s going to happen on this agreement as well as …
Reckoning with racist conditioning
Dear President Biden, Things have been full on both at work and with volunteer activities so it’s tempting to skip writing to you today, but given what’s been gnawing at me, I figure I better go ahead and tell you about it. You see, I started realizing several months ago that I have a very …
Lizzie, Penny, and the Champ
Dear President Biden, Yesterday we had to put our dear old dog, Lizzie, down and in checking to see how your dogs are faring (given Major’s mishaps), I learned that you lost Champ on Saturday. I’m so sorry. It sounds like he and Lizzie would have enjoyed each other, though I’m afraid Lizzie’s exuberance might …
Transitions ~ small and big
Dear President Biden, Before I launch on the two topics of the day, I just want to circle back to let you know that the raspberries I picked this morning were quite tasty. Ok, next…. Hopefully this time the lesson will stick, but I’m not super confident that it will since it hasn’t the handful …
Summer solstice, raspberries, and eagle baths
Dear President Biden, Happy Father’s Day and Happy First Day of Summer! Quite a combo, isn’t it? I hope you had fun with at least some of your kids and grandkids and that you got to soak in many minutes of sunlight (after donning sunscreen, of course) today since we’ve now, officially, started losing minutes …
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That sort of day
Dear President Biden, Happy (Observed) Juneteenth, a worthy federal holiday, for sure. I am, however, holding out for voting day being designated as a federal holiday as well as passage of a robust version of HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Act, so please don’t let me (and democracy) down on these things. And really, …
Inflatable Uncle Sams R US
Dear President Biden, I bet you’re pretty toasty at this point. Maybe crispy is a better descriptor if your fussiness with that CNN reporter is any indication of how ready you are to get back state side so you can sleep in your (sort of) own bed. Since I don’t have the patience or energy …
The perils, and the imperative, of the high road
Dear President Biden, I hope you had a good day today ahead of your dance tomorrow with Vladimir the grizzly. This isn’t the insight of the century or anything, but reading about his basic approach to gaining and retaining power – no holds barred and free rein to be as unprincipled and ruthless as his …
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Rosy gaslighting is still gaslighting
Dear President Biden, This isn’t at all what I was going to start today’s letter with, but I just saw “my” first butterfly of the season. The dogs and I are waiting in the car while Laura does our grocery shopping and a quite large, quite bright yellow butterfly just fluttered by across the way …
A bunny burrow and a POTUS who needs to step it up
Dear President Biden, The nature news from around here is that a bunny or bunny family has taken up residence in our backyard, complete with a freshly dug, quite deep, burrow in the lawn. Mind you, our “lawn” is not one of those neat and tidy bright green things like you have outside your windows. …
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The Biden Letters 