An Early News Break

  I've spent every day since coming home from Nova Scotia working. On the gardens, the weeds, the laundry, the basement, the pool etcetera etcetera etcetera. I'm now exhausted and ready for a vacation. A real one where we lie on a beach for a week and someone brings me a margarita every 30 minutes.

  So while I may neglected my writing, I have been listening to the news and reading and I have a few thoughts on current events. Here goes....

  Dear PM Trudeau, Let's use this "crisis" with Saudi Arabia as an opportunity to stop buying oil from them. Why don't we refine our own and sell it to ourselves? That way we can take care of our own and even sell a little to others. Would that really be a bad thing? Saudi Arabia takes in no refugees, doesn't help out much in U.N. missions and has awful human rights violations. It's time to move onwards and upwards.

  Richard Gere is going to become a father again at 68. And people are celebrating. But Janet Jackson or Brigitte Nielson were vilified for being too old. This double standard is garbage. If you want to talk health risks that's one conversation but this idea that the women are being selfish because they won't be around as their kids grow up but it doesn't apply to older men is infuriating. 

  LeBron James opened a school for at-risk 3rd and 4th graders. Wow this little school has everything. A food pantry for families, tuition for college, books, meals and it's free. Free! And Trump called him dumb. I'll take the "dumb" guy every time thanks. 

  Speaking of Trump, he threw his kid under the bus. Forget what Jr. did for a moment. His Dad sacrificed him to save himself. That's either extreme tough love or narcissism at its purist. No matter it cannot help but foster a strained father/son relationship. A presidential pardon doesn't give you your reputation back. Oh wait his rep was pretty sketchy to begin with.

  And in probably the best news this past week, Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to the small screen as, wait for it, Captain Jean Luc Picard! This makes me ridiculously happy. He was always my favorite of all the series. Fingers crossed this show is on Canadian tv.

  Those are a few thoughts to start the day. Now where is that laundry basket?

  Ang