Opinion/Janice Harvey: Hitching a ride on Trump s road to ruin
By Janice Harvey
Not for a moment was the outcome of Donald J.Trump’s second impeachment trial ever in question. I’d have better luck finding my high school class ring, lost in 1975, than Democrats had finding 17 Republicans willing to admit what was excruciatingly obvious from the get-go: Trump incited violent insurrection on January 6, 2021. The message from 43 Senators? So what? Big deal. Get over it.
This time around, it didn’t hurt as much. It was always in the bag. Trump’s first impeachment trial was a heartbreaker because many of us still labored under the illusion that what was right had might. We hadn’t learned yet that Attorney General William Barr was conscience-free, or that the GOP had morphed into a Marvel comic villain. This time, we knew better. If the past four years have done nothing else, they’ve forced us out of Candyland and into reality.
Opinion/Janice Harvey: D.C. or bust
By Janice Harvey
Will we ever get there? I wonder.
Once upon a time or a year ago my friend Rick and I were planning a trip to Washington, D.C. Despite my addiction to all things political, I’ve never visited the nation’s capital. Our itinerary was in Rick’s hands for two reasons: his ability to plan is second to none, and he’s “been there, done that” twice. My intention was to wander two steps behind him like I always do when we visit museums. We were booked into a two-bedroom condo, and our train tickets were paid for. Yes, train tickets what better way to journey to D.C.?
Julia Severens
The volume and issue numbers (Volume 46, Issue 15, 2020) of the WM (or the T&G) don t reflect the number of good writers whose names have disappeared, sometimes abruptly, over the years. I am here to thank a few of those who made the current issue of WM worth reading:
Victor Infante (though his name is misspelled on p. 18) and Jim Keogh for their reviews. The Worcesteria column is now clear and informative.
Veer Mudambi for a perhaps incomplete but generous spread of Worcester charities in need of donations.
Janice Harvey for exploring the dark side of our lives. While I long to stir honey into Janice s hot apple cider vinegar (a la D.C. Jarvis of New England Folk Medicine fame) I look for her column first in each new issue.
Janice Harvey
I made a list. I checked it more than twice. On one side, I wrote “PROS” and on the other side “CONS,” and at the top of the page I scribbled the words “Reasons to Retire Earlier Than Planned.” In the end, the “PROS” outnumbered the “CONS.”
It was always my plan to leave teaching in 2021 with 31 years behind me. Thanks to a perfect storm of calamities, including a few deaths that knocked the wind out of me, I put in my papers a couple of months ago. I’m leaving the much-maligned and under-appreciated job of educator on my birthday, two days after Christmas. It’s a job I knew as a kid I was destined for, though at the time, I wanted to be an art instructor. As it turned out, my love of words overshadowed my love of paints and brushes, and instead, I became a teacher of English Language Arts.