Dear President Biden, I’m not sure if it’s because I no longer have a daily practice of writing to the Oval Office occupant or if I’m just a lot busier than I was during the full-on DJT nightmare or if the ongoing toxic miasma that’s our news cycle is just too hard to bear, but …
Our Consoler in Chief needs to get back to basics
Dear President Biden, Remember how your predecessor had to carry that little piece of paper with stock condolence phrases when he met with survivors, family members, and friends associated with the Marjory Stoneman Douglass school shooting? I’m not sure he even used the cheat sheet, which I’m guessing someone wrote for him, but as pathetic …
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A hard heart and clay feet
Dear President Biden, I started this letter two days ago after what I think was already an unprecedented number of days in between letters and now that longer-than-usual-break is +2. I’ve just been so disgusted and dismayed by everything I’m seeing and reading that I’ve not been able, or really, willing to gather my thoughts …
It’s not the misery of the moment….
Dear President Biden, According to my NWS phone app we hit 104 yesterday late afternoon. At least that’s the high that was indicated when I checked around 5pm, at which point it had dropped to a mere 100. Later, however, the app listed the high as 102. Who the hell knows? Whatever the high was, …
Waiving patent rights calls for an awesome PR campaign
Dear President Biden, I’m so happy to see that you and your administration have come around to the humanitarian and highly practical decision to waive the patent rights on the coronavirus vaccines – well done! I know there’s a lot more wrangling, hashing out, and parsing of language that needs to happen before the thing …
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A thriving wage for everyone
Dear President Biden, So the issue that keeps poking through and grabbing my attention when I have a quiet moment is the press conference you all had on Tuesday about equal pay for women. I read several articles about it and came away feeling a mix of emotions – hopeful, grateful, disappointed, frustrated. The genesis …
Grant due Tuesday haiku
Dear President Biden, I have a grant due on Tuesday and have been pouring pretty much everything into it so I’m sending along a quick haiku to say hello. They say empathyis your main superpowerand I am grateful. May we be safe while we work on the important work.May we be happy to have a …
The Biden Letters 