This post is not about politics. But it is about Election Day. This was quite a week. We voted. Candidates won. Candidates lost. We said goodbye to political ads for another year or so. It was a lot to take in. Charlotte: Election Day 2008 With all the events of the week, my thoughts continued to return to Charlotte. I thought about how she always went with us to the polls. Four years ago, she braved the lines and the rain to vote TWICE; once with me and once with her dad. On election night, Charlotte had long since gone to sleep but Roger and I stayed up till after midnight, watching history unfold. In the morning, we told her that Barack Obama was our new President. She could recognize his face in magazines and on television and would say, "That's Barack Obama. He's our new president." Who could have guessed that barely two months from that date, as the President took the oath of office, we faced a whole new world that we never ex...
My periodic musings on life.