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The sitter took the day off, because her twin grandsons had a birthday. Happy birthday to the twins! They are so adorable.
T. had a dermatology appointment. A. had her half day. M. visited, but we did not walk. It is super cold out there but apparently not as cold as it is in other places. After dermatology, I took the kids to dinner at Julie’s Place. R. took T. to the movie theatre and dropped him off for A Dog’s Way Home. It won’t be at a local theatre after today and he wanted to see again.
I got a candidate call, from one of the women running for lieutenant governor in Kentucky in the Democratic primary (that does not fully disambiguate who called! Yay!).
As a result of the call, I spent more time thinking about what I want to do about this super odd part of my life. I feel like I do not have an organized or focused enough approach to political donations and, as a result, I feel like I am missing an opportunity to influence the world, however slightly, more effectively. I feel like I am also missing an opportunity to help women candidates in non-monetary ways. I’m talking to an awful lot of them. I probably should be asking better questions.
So I have squeakered out a New Year’s Theme, here on the last day of January: develop a set of resources for understanding state (and local, when local is a big enough urban area) politics for the entire country. The idea is to put together a list of who is worth paying attention to in political commentary on the lower-than-national level, so I can better understand which candidates have a real chance of progressing, given their local climate. I don’t want to back someone whose values align poorly with mine, but if I lived in Kentucky, I’d be making harder choices, and I don’t want to refuse to support someone who is making the harder choices that I would in that context. Yes, I know about the Green Papers and Ballotpedia and Indivisible. I’m going to be trying to track down the papers of record for everywhere, and the political reporters on those papers worth paying attention to and the bloggers worth paying attention to for state politics. If you have a favorite in your home town / state, I’m interested.
T. had a dermatology appointment. A. had her half day. M. visited, but we did not walk. It is super cold out there but apparently not as cold as it is in other places. After dermatology, I took the kids to dinner at Julie’s Place. R. took T. to the movie theatre and dropped him off for A Dog’s Way Home. It won’t be at a local theatre after today and he wanted to see again.
I got a candidate call, from one of the women running for lieutenant governor in Kentucky in the Democratic primary (that does not fully disambiguate who called! Yay!).
As a result of the call, I spent more time thinking about what I want to do about this super odd part of my life. I feel like I do not have an organized or focused enough approach to political donations and, as a result, I feel like I am missing an opportunity to influence the world, however slightly, more effectively. I feel like I am also missing an opportunity to help women candidates in non-monetary ways. I’m talking to an awful lot of them. I probably should be asking better questions.
So I have squeakered out a New Year’s Theme, here on the last day of January: develop a set of resources for understanding state (and local, when local is a big enough urban area) politics for the entire country. The idea is to put together a list of who is worth paying attention to in political commentary on the lower-than-national level, so I can better understand which candidates have a real chance of progressing, given their local climate. I don’t want to back someone whose values align poorly with mine, but if I lived in Kentucky, I’d be making harder choices, and I don’t want to refuse to support someone who is making the harder choices that I would in that context. Yes, I know about the Green Papers and Ballotpedia and Indivisible. I’m going to be trying to track down the papers of record for everywhere, and the political reporters on those papers worth paying attention to and the bloggers worth paying attention to for state politics. If you have a favorite in your home town / state, I’m interested.