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Lisa Savage, A Perfect Roast Chicken, A Great Read & More!

Pat TaubPat Taub

Lisa Savage

My pre-election jitters are bonkers, making me very grateful that the end is in sight.  Just four days to go!  I hate being boxed into the “lesser of two evils” choices.  My preferred candidate was Bernie, but I will vote for Biden, because Trump is truly evil. 

All is not lost: one vote I can happily make is casting my ballot for Lisa Savage, running on the Green Party for Maine’s Senatorial seat.  Lisa supports a Green New Deal, Medicare for all and an end to out-of-control military spending.  With rank choice voting, I can make Lisa my first choice and Sara Gideon my second choice. Presto, a vote for Savage is not a “wasted vote.”

Pat Taub, WOW blog, Portland, Maine

Lisa announcing her run for the US Senate as a Green, 2019

 

Fall Cooking

One of my favorite rituals for ushering in fall and winter is preparing my first roast chicken of the season, which I did this week. For years I’ve been following Martha Stewart’s roast chicken recipe, where the chicken roasts on a bed of sweet onions, assuring a fabulous onion gravy with all the richness of French onion soup.

 

Lose Your Mother

 This week I started the amazing non-fiction book, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route written by Saidyia Hartman.  It’s an account of Hartman’s travels to Ghana, attempting to trace the slave trail from Ghana to America, towards a clearer understanding of her identity. Hartman, an African American, discovers that she feels like a stranger in both Ghana and the US.  I’m only about a quarter through the book, hooked on Hartman’s mission, wondering how she will resolve her confused identity.

 

Halloween Décor

Recently, while shopping at TJ Maxx, I found the most amazing, elegant pumpkin and it was marked down to boot.  It’s a Mercury Glass pumpkin that lights up!  I light it every evening with the same delight as when I turn on Xmas lights. Nothing like a little magic to ease the way in dark times.


                                              HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!

Pat Taub is a family therapist, writer and activist and life-long feminist. She hopes that WOW will start a conversation among other older women who are fed up with the ageism and sexism in our culture and are looking for cohorts to affirm their value as an older woman.

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