New Beginnings, Old Vices

I wrote to my mother today. This is momentous for me for a few reasons, not excluding the fact that I have not written or spoken to her in more than a year. It is funny - I see her in my mannerisms and movements more every day. I cringe when I think about how utterly similar we are. We run from that which is good for us or ties us down. We smile and woo entire rooms. Why are parent-child relationships so complicated? If it were easy, this would be a sitcom. But it's not, so it's more like the movie "Happiness" (I kid, I kid).

So I am going to Israel in March. I am also going on a diet so I am more comfortable for the damn 15-hour flight. We shall see. I may track my progress here, but I probably won't since I am loathe to blog about body issues. Instead I will blog about my life.

Tomorrow is election day. Though I share a name with her (phonetically, anyway) I am NOT voting for Carly Fiorina. I am, however, voting liberal across the board. I feel like even though midterm elections are a "referendum on the President," as I learned on NPR this weekend, the time is nigh to be liberal and stay liberal. Do not back down from the yes-we-can-fight-call. Tow the line that this country can be better and will be better if we take our heads out of our asses and put education, health, social prosperity before corporate bottom lines.

I love Roger Ebert. I follow his Twitter feed religiously. Here is a link to something everyone MUST read: the 8 major myths that GOP shoves down this uneducated populations' throat, CORRECTED: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010104222/false-things-public-knows-they-go-vote.