Living on the last frontier

I lived on the last frontier for 14 years a single woman. I had to endure alot living in Alaska: homelessness, illness, cancer, and waiting for buses in -40 degree weather. But since coming to Idaho there have been hardships too: losing most of my belongings in Alaska and having to start over, going without a car for over 6 months, and living where the temperature was 109 degrees just the other day. I think of what my ancestors must have endured such as my Great Grandmother Mary Shuster. Her husband Charles Keeler was killed in cold blood as a City Marshall in 1867 in The Dalles, Oregon. She remarried Fred Wickman and had eight more children. Charles & Mary's daughter Emma Keeler was my grandmother. What were Mary's thoughts as she walked the Oregon trail as a young girl? And how heartbroken she must have felt when her husband was murdered. I too lost a man I loved who was killed in the Vietnam war. Never had a family of my own or children. Often made fun of by family members and strangers too. I too knew the heartache of trying to make it alone in this world where there are vultures everywhere.

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Fat women in America

I know being overweight or obese is unhealthy for us. I've been overweight for sometime now but not nearly as heavy as these poor ladies. I think being overweight is more of an "emotional" issue rather than just genetics or poor eating habits or not enough exercise. When I was in high school I was always told I was too fat and I weighed appromately 140-150 pounds and at almost 5 feet 7 inches tall that wasn't fat at all. I think the abuse of family members and my ex-husband and boyfriends caused me to gain weight more than anything. When you are beaten with a belt by a brother it causes emotional issues. When your sister screams at you all night long she hopes you become a prostitute when you are just 19 it causes emotional issues. Or when you are married and your husband constantly puts you down and calls you an educated idiot, that you can't do anything right causes emotional issues. I know this is why I've gained my weight. But again I'm on ano...

More and more homeless families and children in America yet President Trumps cuts foodstamps

I guess homeless families, and children, and growing poverty in America doesn't concern a billionaire president who just recently cut foodstamps for America's poor. One out of five children in America today are homeless and hungry yet the richest president in America's history has cut foodstamps more than 1/2 for the nation's poor. And most of them are children. Funny how our government can build new missles, new ships, build a Berlin wall, and help the refugees all across America and yet allow America's most vunerable to go hungy. Shame on you Donald Trump, shame on you!

Homemaking lessons

Back when I was growing up we all took Home Economics in High School; and we had Home-making lessons at church. We learned: Budgeting, sewing, cooking, taking care of children, cleaning house, etc. Some of our projects didn't turn out so well. In church we were taught that having children was the most important role of a woman until you had kids who looked like this: Some women have just given up and have given their kids this for dinner. And we've told the kids to clean up their own messes! We tell our lazy no good husbands to get a job for a change!

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