by Toni McNaron | Sep 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my lifetime, there have been two presidents whom I think have been better ex-presidents than they were active presidents–Jimmy Carter and George Bush. And on Saturday as the country marked twenty years since the bombing of the Twin Towers, George Bush gave...
by Toni McNaron | Aug 3, 2021 | Toni's Blog, Uncategorized
From earliest childhood–the 1940s in Fairfield, Alabama, I remember there seeing “Negroes” in my house and yard. Needless to say they were there as maids and yard men, paid a pittance and given food and iced tea in dishes/glasses not used by us. But...
by Toni McNaron | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the eye-witnesses who testified in the on-going George Floyd trial was Genevieve Hansen, a member of the Minneapolis Fire Department with extensive training in EMT work. This young white woman answered all the prosecutor’s careful questions about her...
by Toni McNaron | Mar 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
A few months into the pandemic, I started attending a new OA 12-step meeting for people dealing with compulsive eating problems. It originates from Arizona where my OA sponsor and her husband now live. When I stopped drinking alcoholically, I just transferred my...
by Toni McNaron | Mar 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
For two whole days, the managers from the House of Representatives shaped in meticulous and unavoidable detail exactly how the former president is responsible for the violent and lawless mob’s insurrection as they stormed the Capitol building on January 6th. ...
by Toni McNaron | Jan 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Recently, I rewatched three seasons of a engrossing British mysteries series, “Unforgotten.” Originally aired beginning in 2015, the series starred Nicola Walker as the lead detective, Cassie, and Sanjeev Bhaskar as her male side-kick, Sunil. In each...
