The Real Me

Dear Diary,

My dear friend Karen was here for a quick over-night visit and she insisted on taking this photograph of me and Emerson, "in the rough" so to speak.  I am using it because this is the real me, surrounded by my books, my sweet Emerson by my side and in my jamies and bathrobe.  This is what my mornings look like.

Shortly, however, I will be getting ready to go to vote.  The most consequential election in my lifetime I believe.  The whole world is watching to see which way this country goes and the soul of our nation is at stake.  I am cautiously optimistic that today we will turn a corner.  As someone said, "Vote as if your life depends on it because it does."