current events Archives — EMMpress words and images for mindful humans Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png current events Archives — EMMpress 32 32 Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’ https://www.emmpress.com/long-a-rambling-tax-tip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-a-rambling-tax-tip Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:07:44 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15059 Hi Friends, DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. I am not a tax expert, and the post below is not to be considered professional advice. It is a…

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]]> Popes, Psychics, Refugees, and the Power of Love https://www.emmpress.com/popes-psychics-refugees-and-the-power-of-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=popes-psychics-refugees-and-the-power-of-love Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:20:01 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11643 My mom called me first thing this morning: “Elizabeth, did you call me last night?” No mom. “Are you sure?” Maybe I did a butt dial. What’s going…

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]]> Democracy is a practice: how (and why) to do it. https://www.emmpress.com/democracy-is-a-practice-how-to-do-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democracy-is-a-practice-how-to-do-it Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:18:42 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11374 No matter how outraged you feel, or how erudite your arguments against Social Security cuts, NIH cuts, Veteran’s care cuts, National Parks pillaging, yanking legal immigrants off the…

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]]> Got George Washington https://www.emmpress.com/wet-george-washington/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wet-george-washington Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:07:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11311 And how attention to the present moment yields stories and signs. This rainy grey day, after dropping my son at school, I drove by Job Lot and saw…

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]]> Open Hope https://www.emmpress.com/open-hope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-hope Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:27:12 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11127 Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…

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]]> Are you freaking out? Try a simple practice for sanity and strength https://www.emmpress.com/are-you-freaking-out-heres-a-pep-talk-and-practice-to-help-you-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-freaking-out-heres-a-pep-talk-and-practice-to-help-you-out Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:23:10 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10722 There has been no end of folks reeling since we’ve had crazy makers at the helm of our executive branch. The extra work some of us need to…

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]]> Efficiency: a dangerous game https://www.emmpress.com/efficiency-is-dangerous/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=efficiency-is-dangerous Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:54:42 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10036 By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…

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]]> What are your Grace Goals today? https://www.emmpress.com/grace-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grace-goals Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:26:22 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=9834 It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s like the last day before…

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]]> Going Dark, in the Morning, Joe https://www.emmpress.com/going-dark/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=going-dark Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:38:46 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1692 Note: This post was originally published in 2018 as I watched a decline in the quality of political news on TV. I suggested that a show I loved…

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]]> Matunuck https://www.emmpress.com/matunuck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matunuck Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:23:25 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4870 Escaping the sleepover fallouttwo extra boys. Legends lp playing then. And now too. The Digital. Quiet happy. Then. and video games. and airy mattress pushed up on it’s…

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]]> The truth shall… https://www.emmpress.com/the-truth-shall/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-truth-shall Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:43:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3308 I feel like this is more important than ever in the world of internet cattle-shoots and brilliant algorithms designed to tweak our emotions and push us to react.…

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]]> Voting to pay taxes in ashes? https://www.emmpress.com/you-want-to-pay-taxes-in-ashes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-want-to-pay-taxes-in-ashes Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:27:15 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3168 I’m calling out those who wield destructive energy, calling to “burn down” the government. (If talking money is the only way to get your attention- so be it.)…

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]]> Code me up – Complicated https://www.emmpress.com/code-me-up-complicated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=code-me-up-complicated Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:21:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2982 My 13 year old and I had one of our more interesting talks the other day. My kids had dragged me to a movie they love, full of…

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]]> Doing it ‘nice and rough’ – Tina Turner is my kind of Buddha https://www.emmpress.com/doing-it-nice-and-rough-tina-turner-is-my-buddha/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doing-it-nice-and-rough-tina-turner-is-my-buddha Wed, 31 May 2023 16:51:15 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2570 I have fifteen minutes to write this. I know Buddhsim works for me, and I want to practice every day. I’ve tried apps, books, meditation retreats and everything…

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]]> Will the Real America Please Stand Up? Birther-in-Chief is Thieving Again https://www.emmpress.com/will-the-real-america-please-stand-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-the-real-america-please-stand-up Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:35:04 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2081 Answering the questions: What is a “birth story” and why is it significant? Who gets to tell that tale (and why does it matter who tells it)? Why…

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]]> “Yes… but” and the road to hell https://www.emmpress.com/yes-but-road-to-hell/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yes-but-road-to-hell Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:28:31 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2077 Why all of a sudden TRump supporters are in disbelief that he could say something brazenly cruel and irreverent? Isn’t that why they voted for him? Thing is,…

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]]> Vision 2022 https://www.emmpress.com/vision-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vision-2022 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:58:45 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2041 Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that “predicted” it? This morning I…

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]]> Mercy mercy me https://www.emmpress.com/mercy-mercy-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mercy-mercy-me Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:34:19 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2007 Why do you continue To say that the money is what matters? To tout it as the stuff of life. Why do you perpetuate this fakery, born of…

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]]> https://www.emmpress.com/itsnottheeconomystupid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=itsnottheeconomystupid Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:30:44 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2001 The post appeared first on EMMpress.

]]> Testimony 2019 https://www.emmpress.com/testimony-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testimony-2019 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:22:29 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2731 This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI’s citizens right to abortion…

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]]> On Cults and Cultural Healing https://www.emmpress.com/release-from-the-cult/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=release-from-the-cult Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:39:02 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1808 How does a nation’s culture heal on a mass level when so many members are likely: Afraid (because they’ve seen hatred and bullying of the “other” by their…

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]]> The superpower I wish I had https://www.emmpress.com/the-superpower/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-superpower Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:59:39 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1677 My daughter asked me my superpower and origin story. The first thing that came to mind was a ball, that came into being by the beauty of the…

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]]> The Nature of Outrage https://www.emmpress.com/the-nature-of-outrage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-nature-of-outrage Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:26:20 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1588 Subtitled: the lifeblood of  propaganda This emotion needs a close examination. Especially now. Especially because it is an “adult” emotion that is used to manipulate people, en masse. …

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]]> what if I quit my first job? https://www.emmpress.com/quit-first-job/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quit-first-job Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:33:26 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1577 What if today, I decided to quit my first job? This woman job I’m judged on every day. What if I didn’t even bother to look clean, coifed,…

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]]> the mirror ball https://www.emmpress.com/the-mirror-ball/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-mirror-ball Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:32:23 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1546 The Las Vegas shooting was horrible. It was also terrorism. How do we know? Because people are more afraid, and feel less safe in their daily lives.  The…

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]]> Right to life: MY American birthright. https://www.emmpress.com/right-to-life-an-american-birthright/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=right-to-life-an-american-birthright Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:25:09 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1464 This is a tough post to write, but  I felt I must write it, and attempt to communicate something that is likely felt by many, but hard to…

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]]> They made their bed, let ’em lie in it https://www.emmpress.com/they-made-their-bed-let-em-lie-in-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=they-made-their-bed-let-em-lie-in-it Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:45:30 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1390 This is one of those posts I didn’t want to write. But this refrain keeps going through my head, so this is as good a way as any…

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]]> e-fuckin-nough https://www.emmpress.com/e-fuckin-nough/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=e-fuckin-nough Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:51:13 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1280 It’s enough already. We need to face this We need to decide we are better than this we can be dignified. No alpha male, no killing, no social…

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]]> breaking through https://www.emmpress.com/breaking-through/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-through Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:54:33 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1236 I want more than anything to break through. Break through the fog that’s clouded my country. The dark, gold dust-filtered smoke that chokes my loved ones and mesmerizes…

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]]> Waitress Tales, Common Fails https://www.emmpress.com/waitress-tales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=waitress-tales Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:02:01 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1135 One of the highest earning waiters I ever knew of, was also the most outrageous. This charismatic professional would walk up to a table and say quickly, charmingly…

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]]> A Pledge of Human Decency https://www.emmpress.com/a-pledge-of-human-decency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-pledge-of-human-decency Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:46:49 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1115 I’m not sure why I feel it is important to promote a pledge for human decency today.  Maybe it is because I feel a little sick in my…

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]]> Red Face to Chance Grace https://www.emmpress.com/red-face-to-chance-grace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-face-to-chance-grace Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:47:09 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1102 For the first time, I have experienced a random Trump supporter asking me how she could ameliorate election-based stress in her family.  This came within a heartfelt 2-sided…

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]]> Government is a service https://www.emmpress.com/government-is-a-service/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=government-is-a-service Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:21:50 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1055 make sure you are well-served  

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