60 Years Are Too Many: Politics and Pony School

 

    11 June 2026

        Tomorrow is my dad's "heavenly" birthday.

        I see that UFC on the White House lawn is going Thunderdome.

        Medicaid and social security are now "entitlements" according to Mike Johnson.

        Voter rolls are being purged, but I-A Colorado Female-received my primary voting ballot in the mail. I am mailing it today.

        I exploded a severely overpressured bag of vanilla wafers all over the Cracker Jack room in front of eighteen under five year old Bears.

        I told a four year old to suck it up when it became clear she was maniuplating my teaching assistant by playing helpless and I intervened. Nope. Not on my watch.

        I feel every second of 80 years old at 11 am daily. Walking on uneven ground and standing for three hours-even at 30 I would have struggled. The three summers I've worked at the pony school I've noticed. I'm on my feet all day teaching and directing at the high school, but I'm moving. I can sit down in an adult sized chair if I want. Literally preschool is standing in one area helping with craft, then standing waiting for potty and handwashing, standing on the playground (concrete or gravel), standing at science (uneven ground) the barn (uneven) the field (uneven). Every year I'm exhausted and say "remember not to do that again" and yet I do. Because money.

        I need to commit to spelling out or using numbers. What's the rule again? Spell out one through nine and use numbers for double didgits? Did I make that up or is it real? Also, how do you spell didgit? Didgit? It doesn't look right. Because it isn't! Digit? I have always added the second "D" but I could not tell you why.

        Also I have a sudden need to own my car. I'll have to double payments, but if I do I can pay it off by December.

        I am going to do the same math with the house. It has been tugging at me for two years, and now it's unrelenting. Need to own car and house.

        Why is Trump so determined to destroy Iran? At the cost of our own economy and lives. Admittedly I've always been a fan of leaving the middle east alone unless they Do Something To Us directly. He started this, and I have no idea why. Even if they did have a nuke--which I guess they could?---it can't reach us. We're being run by a bully and his toxic hypermasculine, racist sychophants. Because that's who America Has Always Been. Not George Carlin-George Bush. Not Mr. Rogers-Mr. Reagan. Entitled trolls who want revenge for not being chosen for kickball.

        Dogs want out again. I need to locate a fourth pair of shoes for today. Nothing is working, and I'm arriving home barely able to walk. 

        Because...I'm 60.

        Scene.