Sarah ‘Sally’ Mackenzie, Brunswick: Life after death, and a sister’s journey
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Since the inception of the “holiday” National Siblings Day, my four siblings and I inevitably shout out to each other our gratitude for our relationship, forged in our tribal need to keep our parents happy and at bay. We are Irish twins: five kids, seven years apart. And boomers. We grew up with many children all our age in a 1950s development of Cape Cod or garrison-style houses. Biggish families. We didn’t think much about what it meant to have brothers and sisters. We took for granted that there would always be lots of people who loved us and would look out for us.
Heâs far better than I expected on his domestic policies. If he can get the Senate to get rid of the filibuster, heâll probably do a lot more. His foreign policy team is hawkish, dragging their feet in regards to Iran and truly reactionary regarding Latin America. But compared to Trump even that looks good. It is truly a blessing not to cringe every morning when I look at the news and donât see 45 [Trump, the 45th president] still in charge of the US.
Chip Hollister, 73, retired psychologist, Pennsylvania, Green party
Tara Chhabra.
âIâm dumbfounded (in a good way) by how much this president has taken on in such a short timeâ