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Having a blog is something I kind of *want* to have, but I also do not have the time or energy to really devote to it the way I had. Back when I was posting pretty regularly, it was because I needed an outlet for my intellectual interests and a place to vent about what I didn't like in my life. But now, I find myself in a non-dead-end job with a baby, so I have plenty of opportunity to exercise my brain and the happiest, smiliest baby on the planet (since the acid reflux and skin issues were solved by the end of June... hard to be happy and smiley when you are in pain 24/7).
I've been really fortunate. When I haven't liked my life, I've had the resources to change it. Not all people do, but totally leaning into that white privilege hard here. I had a fabulous public school education financed by antiquated school funding laws, and the knowledge that if everything failed, my parents had a basement I could move into. I can see where previous generations would get to this point - good career, kid, money in the bank - and turn Republican. But I see every place where a government program made my life possible, and I wonder why we can't expand these to bring more people into the middle class. That might be a new focus for me - generally looking at these issues that should have made my husband and I into some Goldwater Republicans, but instead have us firmly in the Bring Back Obama camp.
