Today is the 20th anniversary of The Blizzard of 1993, when there was somewhere between 15-20” of snow here, most of that in one day. That broke a record that had been standing since 1888. With any luck, this record will stand for another 100 years.
It was not fun. We were without power for only 36 hours - others in the area were dark for over a week. Since we live in the TVA area, most houses here are all-electric, including heating. We had the only working fireplace, plus a gas range, of our immediate neighbors. The two single ladies from across the street spent the night on the floor in our living room. As the 75-year-old widow said, it’d been a long time since she’d been to a slumber party - and she hoped it would be the last one.
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The big news of the world today is the choosing of a new Pope. Because I am not a Roman Catholic, this doesn’t have an immediate bearing on my life. I would hope that this man (who is my age) would be willing and able to bring his church into the 21st century. I have been hearing this evening, though, that he has been quite vocal in maintaining the church’s previous positions against contraception, abortion, adoption by same-sex couples, etc. So I am skeptical. Time will tell, and I do wish him the best in his new responsibilities.
The Church's position on contraception made a lot of liars out of devout Catholics. The elite never seemed to figure that out.
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