"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin
  • I cast my vote about 9 this morning.

    (0)
    Posted on May 20th, 2008sherryGeneral

    My family votes in Millersburg, a village east of Paris on U.S. 68. Though rural, it can hardly be called Appalachian. This is horse country here. We vote in the building that used to be Millersburg Elementary School before the county closed it for economic reasons. Everything becomes more and more centralized.

    Activity around the polling place seemed about normal. The poll workers said they had had a “steady stream” of voters but expected the heaviest vote this evening (southern for late afternoon). The man who was guarding the machine at which I voted was telling me how proud he is of his son, who registered to vote the minute he turned 18.

    Couple things I forgot to mention that Clinton talked about last night that I hadn’t heard before. One, she spent quite a bit of time on equal pay for women. And second, she mentioned a considerable tax rebate for those who buy fuel-efficient cars as well as her gas-tax holiday.

    , , ,

Leave a Reply

 
RSS feed

Archives

Categories

Recent Comments

  • sherry: I agree with you on that one, Harriet. I would not want to be toyed with when it comes to meds.
  • Harriet Leach: I knew a psychiatrist who called medicines “toys”; a new medicine on the market would cause her to light up like a child...
  • Laurie MacKellar: Personally, if I were driven to commit a heinous crime, I would prefer execution over life, or even long imprisonment. Sharia...
  • sherry: Read Sherman Alexie, Tom, in re: alcoholism. The historians I read indicate that it was a real problem and Europeans used it very...
  • sherry: All I know about Sharia, Dave, is women being stoned to death for adultery, or that couple being stoned to death for eloping. In these...

Theme Switcher

What I'm Doing...

  • Daunting, in my black orthopedics, to cross campus behind a blond co-ed in Daisy Dukes, jazz drive lanyard fluttering from her hip pocket. 4 hrs ago
  • Balance: I follow a small sedan through city traffic, a Jesus fish to the left of its license plate, a Darwin fish to the right. 3 days ago
  • Black cables, a gray sky, a pink balloon bouncing on a white string. 4 days ago
  • The orange of the female cardinal's beak matches that patch of rising sunlight on the ash, her "chip, chip, chip" the only sound I hear. 5 days ago
  • Thermometer at 55 this morning, i reach for my fleece throw as I sit reading. In the distance, a dog barks at moon shadows. 6 days ago
  • Talking -- laughing -- with my sister-in-law about how old we felt at 50, I shift in the chair to ease my arthritic hip. 1 week ago
  • More updates...

Powered by modified Twitter Tools.

 

My Books

Dance the Black-Eyed Girl

Dance the Black-Eyed Girl


My Will and Testament Is on the Desk

My Will and Testament Is on the Desk

my 'read' shelf:
 my read shelf

Sherry's favorite quotes


"Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it."— Marcel Duchamp

Artistic Support

Sherry Chandler has received professional development funding and a Professional Assistance Award through the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kentucky Arts Council Sherry has also received an Artist Enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. kfw
CURRENT MOON