by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 27, 2025 | Opinions
The other day, Karen G Clemenson came home for lunch and she mentioned that she heard Disney’s Live Action Snow White was very good, but some people were upset because Snow White was Latina. I have seen the previews and saw she was very light-skinned and thought we...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, The other night I saw an interview with Howard Ludnick, our nation’s commerce secretary, where he believes that if his mother-in-law didn’t get her social security check that she would not complain, but if a person committing fraud, didn’t get...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing in regards to a Yemen airstrike fiasco that should never have happened. In an open chat, on an unsecured platform, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe other high ranking officials and Jeffrey...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2025 | Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
I have read the bible by myself for the joy of it all my life. But when I was younger it was also taught to me to prove myself and others wrong, to find sin, to weaponize Jesus and His word. I don’t know if the people that taught me to do this, did it with intention...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 25, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am writing regarding a post I saw about a budget proposal that includes the highest tax increase in Washington State history. The writer of this post believes that because of record breaking spending, we are consistently spending more money than...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 18, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, My argument for FEMA is based on my very limited trauma response training and my limited but, in my opinion, larger experiences with trauma. When your group has undergone a traumatic experience, they may be in shock, they may be confused, they may...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 17, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I have been waiting patiently to hear of the reinstatement of the Inspectors Generals that Trump fired the first week of his term. It was a shock to hear about but it has become a greater shock that you have done nothing to fix this situation. I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 13, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am very concerned that am hearing conflicting messages regarding Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. As a disabled person I rely on two of these programs. I know many people who also rely on these programs. My wife, Karen G Clemenson, is a...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 10, 2025 | About Summer, Cancer, Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
Nana never spoke about her cancer and I never asked her to. I wish I had. Maybe she would tell me what I am feeling is normal. I have done everything the doctors have told me to do, no matter how painful or humiliating and still the cancer lives inside me. I am a very...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 8, 2025 | About Summer, Cancer
Tuesday I had an MRI. I have had lots of MRIs since my cancer diagnosis. I have had imaging at PeaceHealth St John, Longview Radiology, Legacy Salmon Creek, Legacy Mount Hood, Vancouver Clinic and now Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland and this one was the worst...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 5, 2025 | Cancer, Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving, Queer Community
Someone asked me, today, if I thought all people that supported 47 were a certain kind of people. They used an acronym that I don’t know and that Google doesn’t know so I couldn’t answer their question. They were responding to a post that was actually a rough draft...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 1, 2025 | Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving, Queer Community
I want to confess to you that I am very human. That even though I am a Jesus Follower and I have been all of my life and I have seen Him do amazing things that I am still afraid. I wake up every day and thank Him for my blessings, because I am a blessed woman, and I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 19, 2025 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Books are so important. If there is one thing that stands out that my wife, Karen G Clemenson, and I have in common in our upbringing it is that our families ensured that we could read and they were serious about it. The books I grew up with were part of my childhood...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 18, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, I am very concerned about our national debt and the stress that is on my family and working families like mine. I know that Trump and the republicans are going to want to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from 2017 that is about to expire but I am...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 18, 2025 | Poetry, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving
It is hard to think with my human mind Sometimes my spirit is on fire And I can’t imagine how to move The direct path is hard to see ~ Those who live in the spirit Cannot be judged They cannot be understood By those who live in the flesh ~ It is only God that knows...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 16, 2025 | Opinions, Politics, Prayers & Thanksgiving
My heart hurts so much for the persecution that people have been going through and are going through at the hands of people proclaiming to be christians. White people. I used to be one of them, by proxy, but luckily for me, one day, God spoke to me and said, “It’s...
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 10, 2025 | Letters to My Representatives, Opinions
Dear Representative, When I first heard about the president’s executive order regarding DEI, I felt it was just another phrase for affirmative action and being married to a black woman, that believed we were far enough evolved to not need this anymore, I...
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