A Surviving Facts Blog Forgive typos— I’m having a moment. I wrote this original blog a few months ago before billionaire greed moved more into the spotlight. Recently, Billie Eilish, Rachel Maddow and Steve Colbert have all chastised the billionaire bros— Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk— for their greed. Billie and Rachel, both accepting awards for theirContinue reading “Yep, They’re Still Assholes- Part 2 of original blog”
Author Archives: Cheryl Wipper
Ghost Story
Into the Wilderness: Story 57 The political landscape has been such a roller coaster that I couldn’t bear to dwell on it. I’m both heartened by the democratic “wave,” as it’s being called, and terrified of the possible increases in my ACA premiums. So I have decided to write about something more predictable than today’sContinue reading “Ghost Story”
Get Thee Behind Me
Into the Wilderness: Story 56 My fourth grade teacher scared me. I grew up in Oklahoma in the center of the Bible Belt. Although church and state were supposed to be separate, I had many teachers preach the gospel in public school. I was a Greek Orthodox Christian, a pomp and procedure religious practice veryContinue reading “Get Thee Behind Me”
Health care crisis
A Surviving Facts Blog We are in the sixth week of the government shutdown. With both parties refusing to budge— and a lot of false rhetoric about who’s doing what— it’s likely that the shutdown could become the longest in history. This shutdown hits me personally. I get my and my daughters’ health care “onContinue reading “Health care crisis”
Lost and Found
Into the Wilderness: Story 55 A close family member and I have not spoken in almost 20 years. His children are adults with careers. He looks as he always did with less hair and a slightly bigger paunch. His wife— forgive me— looks like his mother. She hasn’t aged well, though it could be theContinue reading “Lost and Found”
Do I dare?
A Starting Over at Sixty Blog When living the corporate life, certain superficial things become important. A professional female executive has to dress right, style her hair a certain way and manicure her nails. I’m not talking about Cardi B nails. I’m referring to neatly trimmed, and almond-, round- or slightly squared-shaped gel polished nails.Continue reading “Do I dare?”
My Dogs Are Teaching Me to Fight the Patriarchy
A Starting Over at 60 blog My starting over has stalled. Stalled, stuck, stopped, stuffed. At least it feels that way. Truth is: I’ve been busy. I’m still packing up and unpacking, getting settled and getting used to less space. In typical mom fashion, I’m helping my husband and daughters organize and center. I comeContinue reading “My Dogs Are Teaching Me to Fight the Patriarchy”
Starting over isn’t easy
A Starting Over at 60 blog When I decided to create a new life at the young age of 60, I set up a number of parameters for myself. My goal has been to catapult myself out of a 30-year period of comfort and stability. To be clear, these years were punctuated by plenty ofContinue reading “Starting over isn’t easy”
Hegseth’s speech may be exactly what we needed
A Surviving Facts blog Did you watch this week’s military display? If you did, then whether you’re wearing red-colored or blue-tinted glasses, you heard what I heard: No fat people in the military. Hegseth’s Patton-flag-modeled Ted Talk was clear: fat people are disgusting, men need to be warriors again (is he referring to Vikings, whichContinue reading “Hegseth’s speech may be exactly what we needed”
Begin, Again
Starting over at 60: story 1 “Change,” the wind says lifting the browning leaves from the limbs. “Change,” the wild turkeys peck through the underbrush, unplugging slugs from soil slots. “Change,” the does stamp at the dogs yowling at the gate. “Change,” the squirrels natter with cheeks pouched with nuts. All around me, change. It’sContinue reading “Begin, Again”
Walk the Moon 