Dear President Trump, Where, oh where to start? Let’s go with job security in the Age of Trump. Scott Pruitt’s job is hanging by a thread but he’s still useful to you so he’s getting a pass. He’s slithering by because he is doing a bang-up job of gutting President Obama’s environmental protections. Does he … Continue reading Job security in the Age of Trump
Distress tolerance
Dear President Trump, On my run this morning I was thinking about the incredible self-control and patience that people who have to put up with loads of crap day in and day out must have to have to survive. Then, along these same lines, I read a WP piece about being gay and living in … Continue reading Distress tolerance
“Dangerous unselfishness”
Dear President Trump, I just checked to see if you’ve said anything about today being the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jrs’ assassination and so far all I see are essays on how he would lament your presidency if he were alive and admonishments to you to please ignore the day and go golfing … Continue reading “Dangerous unselfishness”
It’s hard to study if you don’t have enough to eat
Dear President Trump, I read this morning that about 36% of university students in the US deal with food insecurity and close to that proportion cope with unstable housing. Given the secrecy and shame around not having enough and not appearing to be ok, the numbers are probably underestimating the real extent of these problems. … Continue reading It’s hard to study if you don’t have enough to eat
We are most certainly not in tippy-top shape
Dear President Trump, Yesterday when I saw that Melania’s Egg Roll on the White House lawn was scheduled for today, I immediately thought it was so you all could have one more day down at Mar-a-lago. Fortunately before blasting you for shirking I looked up the date for the last one the Obamas hosted and … Continue reading We are most certainly not in tippy-top shape
Jesus wasn’t about walls
Dear President Trump, It’s felt like April Fool’s Day for 435 days so it’s hard to imagine how much worse things will get now that virtually all the semi-rational people in your administration have resigned or were fired by Tweet. The only possible silver lining is that your Foxy Friends will egg you on to … Continue reading Jesus wasn’t about walls
It was weird
Dear President Trump, Yesterday my church held a Good Friday service with seven women ministers preaching on Jesus’s last seven utterances. It was incredible. I wish you could have been there. I wish you would have wanted to be there. I wish you were someone who was willing to step into the mess of suffering … Continue reading It was weird
Shiny baubles
Dear President Trump, Did you just put Ronny’s name forward to head the VA to distract us (again)? All this business with the VA conveniently came down about the same time the media got a hold of information that your attorney was whispering visions of pardon sugar plums in Manafort and Flynn’s ears way back … Continue reading Shiny baubles
You poked the wrong bear this time
Dear President Trump, Even if I hadn’t been writing to you every day for 410 days, this would be a day I’d be writing to you to express my frustration, dismay, and concern over your decision to fire Secretary Shulkin and to install your White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, in his place as head of … Continue reading You poked the wrong bear this time
Taking (kind of ) a break from the mayhem
Dear President Trump, Sometimes I can be pretty darn naïve, if not downright dense. Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about a project she is starting that involves recruiting a very large cohort of LGBT people for a longitudinal study on mental health. She was telling me that the original recruitment plan involving Facebook … Continue reading Taking (kind of ) a break from the mayhem
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