Judge ACB

Binge Blog theme: #NDEAM. Read on for why.

First, before RantWoman delves too deeply into commentary about Judget Amey Coney Barrett,  please permit RantWoman to get a couple rants out of her system:

RantWoman HATES the national discussions hung on the term "Pro-life." The US needs to take better care of whatever babies get born, as in Medicare for All. People, regardless of religious belief need comprehensive sex education. Knowing what condoms do does not preclude people from deciding NOT to have sex. Decisions about abortion are exquisitely personal and no one should get to impose their missionary zeal on others! And RantWoman may at some point go on at great length about eugenics, disability, birth defects and lots of people she knows who are VERY happy to be alive, thank you very much, no matter what ableist tropes they have to swim in all the time.

ACB around Planet RantWoman is "The American Council of the Blind." RantWoman is fine, Fine, FINE with having mentally to edit in favor of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. 

RantWoman is sorry to hear that the White House occasion where Judge Barrett's nomination was announced has turned into such a #CoronaPalooza. RantWoman would not particularly want ascension to anyone's Supreme Court position to be marred by this circumstance #Coronapalooza showed up at an event  timed already to look, to RantWoman's taste, a little too much like dancing on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's grave.

RantWoman would also be grossed out by the political chicanery associated with votes on the stimulus, the Supreme Court nomination, and the election. Would RantWoman have enough intestinal fortitude to stand up and say "Look. People are suffering. My nomination can wait until after the election. Deal with the stimulus now"? Would RantWoman have the spine just to state in advance that she would recuse herself from all cases related to the 2020 election? Would RantWoman have the fortitude to tell a president who is clearly ill and whacked out of his mind on medication "Thanks but no thanks. Come back and talk to me when you are more obviously of sound mind"? RantWoman is unlikely to face such dilemmas but she has to ask anyway.

Now, to some actual #NDEAM content: RantWoman has been looking for a link about the blind law student at Notre Dame law school who is now famous not only because she was mentored by Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett but also because she is the first blind woman to serve as a Supreme Court Clerk and to clerk for Justice Thomas no less, just in case anyone assumes all blind people think alike.

What I learned from Amy Coney Barrett

RantWoman always, no matter who the subject or what the circumstances, is undecided about phrasing a call to public service or any other action only as "God made me do it." On one hand, faith is always an important motivator. On the other hand, a secular state cannot long exist if people of different faiths cannot establish principled common ground. 

Principled Common Ground? For now can we just say a minefield of issues and circumstances tangled up int eh current Supreme Court confirmation process.

For balance, from the other side of the Senate aisle, a statement from Sen. Patty Murray. RantWoman is trying to keep an open mind about Judge Barrett's judicial temperament and what directions her views might evolve with a lifetime appointment. RantWoman is also cross that the moderator for the list this came from takes it upon himself to decide what the rest of the blind people need to read. But that is another problem. In any case read on.

*Senator Murray Stresses the Stakes of SCOTUS Fight for People withDisabilities: “We Cannot Roll Back Access, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity”*

*On a call, Senator Murray encourages 230 disability advocates to keep up the fight against the Republicans’ rushed SCOTUS nomination*

*Senator Murray highlights how Republicans’ singular focus on confirming another far-right nominee to the Supreme Court would impact people with disabilities’ access to health care*

*Senator Murray to disability advocates:** “Instead of doing anything to help each of you, all Senate Republicans are doing is rushing through the nomination of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court, a move that could roll back important protections for people with disabilities.”*

*(Washington, D.C.) –*  Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, encouraged disability advocates to keep up the fight to slow and stop the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court—and highlighted how Senate Republicans’ singular focus on their rushed confirmation process would harm the disability community and impact their access to affordable health care.

*“We should be working to make health care more affordable and accessible and pass a COVID relief package that ensures people with disabilities get the supports and services they need in the midst of this pandemic. But instead of doing anything to help each of you, all Senate Republicans are doing is rushing through the nomination of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court, a move that could roll back important protections for people with disabilities. It’s absolutely disgraceful—and that’s why I’m committed to do everything I can to support you in the fight to stop this nomination,”* said Senator Murray on call with 230 people with disabilities, their families, and advocates, hosted by the Association of University Centers for Disability (AUCD).

On the call, Senator Murray stressed that if Senate Republicans succeed in confirming Judge Barrett and dismantling the Affordable Care Act, people with disabilities would lose protections for pre-existing conditions including disabilities, bans on annual and lifetime caps on benefits, and essential health benefits—which require health plans to cover crucial expenses for people with disabilities like prescription drugs, and habilitative and rehabilitative services.

Senator Murray also highlighted how Senate Republicans’ effort to confirm another far-right Supreme Court nominee would have far-reaching impacts for people with disabilities, beyond just their access to health care. Senator Murray noted that Justice Barrett has not been champion for equal rights for people with disabilities—and the upcoming nomination fight threatens to roll back important advancement in access, inclusion and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.

*“Not only do Senate Republicans want to confirm a nominee who would take health care away from millions, and make it more expensive for people with disabilities, but their nominee is also a threat to the rights of workers, including workers with disabilities,” *continue Senator Murray, on thecall.* “Trying to replace Justice Ginsburg—a champion for disability rights—with someone who will not fight for equal rights, is deeply troubling.  We cannot roll back access, inclusion, and equal opportunity.”* 

The Influence of Quakers in Mental Healthcare

Rant Woman actually does not find this an entirely satisfying video, not even as a first encounter with the topic.

RantWoman is a big believer in comunity living, having people in the least restrictive environment possible and peer support. RantWoman can easily fit these ideas into her #NDEAM binge blog in the same way she can fit a Twitter thread about one employee on the autism spectrum made it safe for younger employees also nthe specturm to be mroe visible. Not unlike people of all genders... BIPOC...As for why all that matters, stay tuned.

Not just buried ancestors. Avis Wanda on Creating a Friends Victory Garden

Alert Readers who want more of Avis Wanda's story can find some using her name in the Search bar.

It never occurred to RantWoman to think about Avis Wanda's voice but RantWoman finds it terribly interesting.

RantWoman can easily get to all of her binge blog themes: pedestrian safety and breast cancer awareness are easy: good gardens enhance both. #NDEAM, only tangentially because what one does in one's volunteer time can easily open doors to more employment than the rest of a team might want. May that be the worst problem on anyone's plate.

Clerking, Come to Think of it, with Digressions

 Clerking…Come to think of it….

Readers aware that RantWoman is conducting a month-long binge blog are invited to meditate particularly on how the topics below relate to National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM, #NDEAM2020, Pedestrian Safety Month #PedestrianSafetyMonth, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Please be assured, RantWoman can get there easily though not concisely!

Think Better-run Meetings for Business. Think minutes that reflect actual clear instructions to committees.Think how principles of inclusion can make both workplace and Meeting for business saner.

Think the focus skills one acquires fitting public testimony into the time boxes prescribed.

Think RantWoman's REPEATED offers to clerk short-term activities so people do not have to commit to a whole year.

Think RantWoman AGAIN being tempted to put on some kind of SuperWoman cloak and needing to be ....

Lexicography note: Clerking is Quakerese for "meeting facilitation."

Digression They also serve who know bookkeeping.

RantWoman is meditating about some recent meeting experiences.

One was a Meeting for Business. Some small moment of bookkeeping clarity came up while Friends were reviewing minutes. Only one person in the room noticed. RantWoman would be happier actuall if there were more people in the room who both have bookkeeping skills and have the clarity to stand and asked to be recognized when small corrections need to be made.

 

Another moment: a board meeting for a blindness nonprofit. RantWoman was THRILLED by the precision with which the young blind treasurer articulated the different bookkeeping issues coming up in the discussion. It’s not just that the treasurer is competent and articulate. This thrill is also because RantWoman is REALLY bad at “clerical speed and accuracy.” Being a good bookkeeper requires a lot of both of those things. RantWoman is permitting herself to be awed though by the work being done by a blind person. RantWoman imagines that good skills of blindness and experience with screen reader technology are part of the picture.

 

Another Moment: a b was a Meeting for Worship for Business. Matters of bookkeeping and process were coming up. The clerk was thinking of moving forward with the initiative. RantWoman is articulate, overeducated and certain she is entitled to offer her opinion. From the discussion, it was clear that the matter needed to be held over. As RantWoman considers issues, though, the POINT of the discussion was to arrive at some sense of the concerns from those present and either implicit or explicit instructions from Business Meeting to the committees following up. RantWoman realized she had already spoken many times. RantWoman decided instead of speaking, she just needed the rest of the room to articulate its concerns, but another infamous RantWoman email was born. RantWoman spoke of some experiences. When exasperated feedback came back, RantWoman APPRECIATED the immediacy and basically told the two people she addressed that she trusted them to use her words as they were led.

Digression No. 2. Care of Community. Is RantWoman just over the top again?

The last Business meeting referenced above was also considering revising the community email policy. RantWoman has two twitches and she has little basis for having an opinion specifically about this Meeting. 

First, RantWoman restated her concern that for notices like announcements of death or pastoral care moments such as medical issues, tolerating reply/all can help people see how the community is connected. RantWoman especially appreciates this because it is so hard for her to connect with people in the first place. RantWoman remembers a moment when the Clerk decided RantWoman's concern was covered by one piece of wording. RantWoman can live with that thought but is now wondering whether she should have pushed a little harder to have her point documented in minutes. For now, RantWoman can live with articulating her concern herself in her own words and feeling disappointed at the lack of enthusiastic embrace from others but grateful at least to be heard by several people instead of being told that one person decided on her behalf.. 

Second, RantWoman expressed a wish that there be explicit mention in the email policy that the clerk would follow up on troubling things that might come up in email. Examples in RantWoman's weirdo mind including indications of family trouble or reactions to, say, weird messages in worship  Again, at least RantWoman said her piece and people seemed to get it, but RantWoman's wish for more explicit wording did not happen. RantWoman will live with that.

Clerking

Once upon a time, long long ago, maybe around the time of RantWoman's midlife vision meltdown in 2004, RantWoman was sitting in a meeting for an NPYM body. Discussion arose about the annual practice of picking two people from the Yearly Meeting to Philadelphia to learn clerking from a weighty Friend. RantWoman realized that round trip airfare and lodging cost about the same no matter which direction one starts out. RantWoman suggested that perhaps the budget could be used to fly the weighty Friend west and that it would go further if many people could learn clerking skills at once. 

Lo, the idea took root and perhaps the next summer Weighty Friend came to WA and held a clerking workshop before Annual Session. Interest was considerable. RantWoman of course was interested but was not selected to participate. RantWoman half minded / half did not mind. RantWoman had not acquired some needed technology. Nor had RantWoman fully learned skills such as asking for reasonable accommodations such as having copies of handouts in advance. Finally, RantWoman had not really begun to think specifically either about a whole basket of "blind person in meetings issues or about what the term "reasonable accommodations:: needs to mean around her. 

In the next while, RantWoman served as co-clerk of Hospitality Committee, a role RantWoman was not really suited for. Plus RantWoman's co-clerk did a good chunk of the work, and recruiting people to make coffee after worship turned out to happen even if it would have gone better with more attention.

Comes along 2012 and two Weighty Friends from RantWoman's meeting offer a clerking workshop. RantWoman attended. After the workshop, RantWoman emailed the Weighty Friend who flewin from the East the last time a clerking workshop occurred. RantWoman asked whether to his knowledge he had ever clerked a meeting with a blind present. He wrote back "No." RantWoman did not think to ask about any other disability!

between 2011 and 2019 RantWoman has thought a lot about blind person in meetings issues because of going to many different meetings. RantWoman repeatedly invited members of the Care and Accountability committee to go with her to blindness events and to talk about blind person in meetings issues. The Care and Accountability committee declined this invitation. Two people who had roleson the Ad-Hoc Committee on Disability also went to blindness community events and had helpful observations but RantWoman was kicked out of Meeting before people got around to having a focused discussion about this topic!

RantWoman also requested electronic copies of handouts. RantWoman still has the handouts in her email archive. RantWoman looked them up when considering attending the most recent clerking workshop in fall of 2019. The handouts include a bibliography with a lot of materials that are either available only in print or out of print entirely. RantWoman's understanding of continuing revelation in the age of internet and apps would suggest maybe time to update the resource list! For instance, RantWoman herself owns a couple of topica ebooks.

In fall of 2019, another clerking workshop was held jointly sponsored by University Meeting and Salmon Bay meeting. RantWoman asked to attend. RantWoman asked to attend both out of a spirit of encouraging people to venture into this role and in hopes of educating people about blind people in meetings issues all at once. RantWoman's request was denied. So now, as RantWoman has written elsewhere, the workshop trained 50 new clerks. Awesome. Now every time RantWoman encounters a new clerk, RantWoman will have to educate them, one after another. RantWoman could easily find her way to the term "undue burden," EXCEPT what if...RantWoman really wants some less interested outsiders to clerk a couple threshing sessions about different topics. What if, what if, some of the new clerks get asked and part of the work process is figuring out how ot work with everyone's access needs...?

Tales of Sweetgrass & Trees: Robin Wall Kimmerer & Richard Powers with T...

Readers aware that RantWoman is conducting a month-long binge blog are invited to meditate particularly on how the topics below relate to National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM, #NDEAM2020, Pedestrian Safety Month #PedestrianSafetyMonth, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pleae be assured, RantWoman can get there easily though not concisely!

 

Readers interested in meditations about why it matters no matter whether the context is work, volunteer activity, or small organization, to have access to the same content as everyone else even if it comes in alternate formats, please be aware that RantWoman has an excellent tirade available about this topic as well.

 

Readers who see the word “eternal” in the query below and think RantWoman may be being just a little bit TOO eternal, PLEASE hold RantWoman in the Light. RantWoman  is easing into dealing with a medical issue. RantWoman also continues to pray to be delivered, liberated of numerous inappropriate prayers with respect to #CoronaPalooza at the White House or at least to have sentiments magically translated into well-centered Quakerese. RantWoman STILL after all these years does not particularly have a God as Personal Butler model of Divine Presence, though, so everyone gets to do the best we can…

 

 

Query from Last week:— When traditional Quaker queries ask: “Are you learning to know one another in that which is Eternal?," what does that mean to you and how do you answer it? (Query based on queries of Illinois Yearly Meeting)

 

The Book Group

At our next session on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 1 pm, The Uprooting Racism Book Group will discuss the book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings ofPlants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

 

As a supplement to the book, Friends may want to look at some of the many interviews with Robin Wall Kimmerer available on YouTube. This one, The Teaching of the Grass, is suggested by Erica Schweizer. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89715738514?pwd=L3Rma1pBQWMrQWsza1RzUFUvSmRQZz09

Meeting ID: 897 1573 8514. Passcode: UFMBooks One tap mobile

+12532158782,,89715738514#,,,,,,0#,,54441157# US (Tacoma)

Book Group meetings are held at 1:00 pm the first Sunday of every month, continuing at least through February 7, 2021. All are welcome to join.***

***Except ….

But here is a great autoplay set of videos.

and Pandemic EBT

First a moment with one of RantWoman's annoying traits, wanting to add something to perfectly fine work by others, let's talk SNAP and #PandemicEBT  First the part where RantWoman riffs on newsletter matters and wants to add something to what is already an excellent event. 

Report: SNAP Information Event

Ellie Duffield

Peace and Social Concerns hosted an advocacy session for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) last month. It was sparsely attended, but the people who came were enthusiastic about sharing their stories and writing letters to members of Congress to support SNAP. If you are interested in writing a letter or email, it is not too late! Ask your representative to increase the SNAP budget by 15% in order to meet growing needs. Some points you could include are:

• All but four states reported increases in people requesting SNAP benefits over the summer. In March there were 37.1 million people using SNAP and by April that number went up to 43 million. Black, Latinx, and Indigenous households are suffering an unequal financial burden in response to the pandemic.

• In Washington state, more than half the households participating in SNAP are families with children. Kids do better in school when they are able to get enough to eat.

• SNAP is the most effective anti-hunger program in the United States and helps one in eight Americans afford a basic diet.

• Nine out of every ten meals that feed the hungry come from federal nutrition programs.

• If you have experienced food insecurity or benefited from any government program, please include that in your letter. Sharing a personal story is one of the most effective ways to advocate for an issue.

Writing letters and emails is important even when we think our representatives agree with us and support an issue. They can use our letters to demonstrate to colleagues that their constituents are demanding action. Washington’s senators are 

Patty Murray Patty Murray electronic contact form

and 

Maria Cantwell Maria Cantwell electronic contact form 

SNAP and Pandemic EBT RantWoman unsolicited donation of an additional messages.

One of the fights about SNAP budget was also a debate about whether to give people boxes of food chosen by someone else through the Department of Agriculture, or to give people SNAP benefits they can spend on food of their choice. The latter is unquestionably a better value for food insecure. RantWoman would love to have had the energy to check out whether some Trump campaign contributor got a big contract to develop and distribute the former. RantWoman also lives in an area where some of these boxes of food are getting dropped. The boxes run very heavy to starches, cereal, big brands that people from some cultures just don't eat, a tiny amount of dried fruit, sometimes protein, and fresh things such as potatoes and onions. Giving people direct benefits so they can choose their own groceries is far preferable!

The first round of the CARES funding also included a benefit called #PandemicEBT. Since most children who qualify for Free and Reduced Price Lunches were not in school to receive the breakfast or lunch provided by that program, families could apply to have money that would have gone to school lunch put on their SNAP benefit card instead. The program has now ended and it probably would be difficult to add extension of that program to whatever legislation is being worked on. Nevertheless, it was a very valuable program even though by far not everyone eligible was able to access it. So RantWoman would say, if you can work mention of extending Pandemic EBT into comments about the SNAP program, it is worth doing even if it might not go anywhere this time.

RantWoman actually would qualify for a small dollar amount of SNAP benefits. The dollar amount per month is so small, RantWoman does not really consider it worth her time to apply--EXCEPT that in Seattle the ridiculously paternalistic sugary beverage tax funds a benefit that gives SNAP recipients money to spend at farmers' markets, assuming the farmer's markets are operating, one can get to them on their schedule, and one has time these days to wait in socially distanced lines. Waiting in line is not a RantWoman strong suit. Plus RantWoman finds it easy to get more vegetables than she can eat anyway.

Even More Unsolicited Contributions of Technical Assistance.

This post is part of this year's observance of National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM #NDEAM2020

RantWoman is very clear in a call to donate considerable time to what the term of art calls "technical assistance" about a number of topics. What is the nature of this call?

--RantWoman has been told her time is worth not quite as much as lawyers and top level accountants but considerably more than minimum wage. 

--Welcome to reasonable accommodations! RantWoman needs the same accommodations whether she is at work, at Meeting, volunteering elsewhere. RantWoman also needs the same coping skills when accommodations are, sometimes comically imperfect. And SOMETIMES one practices all of this outside a workplace in order to polish them up for application in a workplace. Or one can wind up like RantWoman curerently with too many "will work for sandwiches" gigs and a few usability tests complete with  "please fill out our survey and be entered into a lottery for small compensation.." bits.

--RantWoman has a role outside of Meeting that she cannot fill with integrity without continuing to try aroun meeting.

--University Friends Meeting has too big a footprint in the Religious Society of Friends to fall apart over one Friend's midlife vision loss. RantWoman has a peculiar gift about bad communications causing much needed shakeups to occur. RantWoman would be grateful to be able to fine-tune the gift by quite a bit, even today's kinder gentler version of the RantWoman of previous eras. RantWoman has to continue to give the problem to God.

--UFM is the only meeting RantWoman has ever belonged to and therefore, it is to RantWoman, her Meeting no matter how many Friends jump down her throat or gaslight her in email about specific issues of physical abuse or gaps in shared awareness of important facts.

--They're HERE! RantWoman aspires to be at least a plausible adult role model and hopefully to make some pockets of the world a little less ableist for upcoming generations. RantWoman talks to a fair number of women her age about vision loss. According to the American Foundation For the Blind, there is a big uptick around age 40 for women qualifying for Social Security disability specifically because of vision loss. RantWoman has no opinion about why that is except it covers lots of working age people and the world of vocational rehabilitation. Finally, lots of people are aging into blindness and other disability. Think how much Friends have to learn and build community about.

--Diversity and Inclusion is a big term in the corporate world. Think of it as a secularized version of "that of God in Everyone." Or think of it as inclusive design is better for everyone. Or think of it as bigger, better, stronger thant the ADA because the ADA sometimes winds up being a ceiling rather than a minimum and because many efforts can wind up compliant with the ADA and not accessible and because there are areas where the ADA does not apply but for instance in WA religious organizations are considered public accommodations subject to the same anti-discrimination provisions of the WA state anti-discrimination statute as other organizations. There is an additional "and furthermore.." that gets a separate post.

RantWoman is aware that past donations of disability related technical assistance have been imperfect in a number of respects. Even RantWoman can go Owwww about some olde emails However, RantWoman hopes that Friends, particularly committee cle rks who in the past have asked to be deleted from relevant mailing lists or who have walked out of the room when disability comes up in conversation, or have their own busy lives full of hair appointments, classes, projects.. or who still get all sputtery will somehow find it within themselves to try again! Likewise recording clerks who, in RantWoman's observation have been flummoxed by many things they deserve to get better words about. RantWoman particularly holds in the Light some past communications wrinkles related to the space-time continuum which RantWoman is likely to need to revisit but not tonight.

 This post celebrates the exciting role, at least for RantWoman, of volunteer and non-profit advocacy in Vocational Rehabilitation, as in learning to use new tools, leveraging life experience, and landing somewhere that might or might not be entirely on her feet but could be a whole lot worse.

Tonight RantWoman is also drafting thank you comments to be recorded in advance in recognition of RantWoman's presence in a different organization. One of the things RantWoman has written: "I don'w know anything. I just go to meetings and cross pollinate.

In particular RantWoman needs to mention:

--Learning to ask for reasonable accommodations, being able to be precise about what is needed, and having the request WORK. In this case, RantWoman has over time intermittently asked a succession of newsletter editors just to put headings in the newsletter. Even for a short document, headings make it much easier for RantWoman to re-read articles one at a time without having to scream her screen reader through the whole document. RantWoman sent an inquiry recently because the headings have been doing weird things for awhile. This month they work!

--Learning when to ask for reasonable accommodations such as having PowerPoints or presentation handouts emailed in advance of meetings, all kinds of meetings, public meetings, Adult Religious Education, special workshops. RantWoman would say based on years of observation, that awareness of concepts such as alternate formats is uneven, and Friends inclination, willingness or ability to learn, RantWoman is not speculating is distributed decidely unevenly. RantWoman is NOT called to go away. Not only that, RantWoman thinks learning about reasonable accommodations and alternate formats is of such value to working age Friends that RantWoman is happy to continue to donate technical assistance about the topic, whether such assistance is welcome or not!

RantWoman gets that this level of resoluteness might look like a darned peculiar way to express care  gratitude. Cope!

In Light and Faithfulness.

RantWoman

Aware and Faithful

   Happy October!

RantWoman's life is doing well about "Yucky Topics Festival." Besides #Pandemic and the return in reduced form of #SeattleSmoke , welcome to:

National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month. #NDEAM #NDEAM2020

In observance of the occasion, RantWoman will be rambling about three categories of people: people born into disability, working age people on the job market including people who acquire a disability or whose disability becomes worse during working age, and probably people aging into disability.

RantWoman will also be meditating, er providing unreimbursed technical assistance, about reasonable accommodations, public accommodations, assistive technology, nonprofit and volunteer gigs, vocational rehabilitation, and miscellaneous other topics.

Pedestrian Safety Month #PedestrianSafety #PedestrianSafetyMonth

In observance of this month, RantWoman will be tagging every tweet that mentions crumbling sidewalks and #CarOwnerVirus with wishes for Happy #PedestrianSafetyMonth

RantWoman also urges people who do social media, pedestrians, people who drive to create #NearMiss data. What time of day? Weather? Location? Other Circumstances? How did the pedestrian almost get hit. Bicyclists are also welcome to use the #NearMiss tag but RantWoman is most interested in #PedestrianSafety.

RantWoman will further be gently lecturing the providers of travel directions to many different locations with exhortations please not to assumer everyone drives or cares about parking.

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

There will be posts and references. Perhaps enough said for now.