There’s a West Wing episode where they flashback to Bartlet running for his first term as President where Bartlet is contemptuous of his speech writers for referring to Hoynes as “the candidate.” “Don’t you think they’re gonna think I’m an idiot?” But it totally works in this context because you just know it burns…

This was my childhood experience, as well. Except growing up in Chicago, we also used to climb the buildings, shimmy across gutters 6 stories off the ground and hop freight trains for quick access to nearby suburbs. My mother still can’t figure out how we all came out of it alive and relatively unscathed.

There’s a show on Showtime Allen “The Circus” which goes behind the scenes of the campaigns and last week they sat with Clinton’s social media team and it was great. They’re about 10 people in a room with computers. At the time, they were watching a Trump rally on a big screen t.v. They would just react to what he…

Sorry, apparently you can’t edit. That sentence should begin with “I’m in my 50s...”

I’m I not my 50s and I remember that word being used to describe biracial kids. It seemed like that term died out in the 80s.

Yep. A guy at a bar once asked me out and I said “no.” His friends started giving me a hard time, telling me what a great guy he was, to give him a chance, etc. I continued to say no. One friend then asked me why I’d told his friend no, did I not think he was nice, did I not think he was attractive, what was it? …

Well, the good news is, that’s the last we saw of him. He apparently had been involved in some shady deals and the police were happy to use a domestic abuse charge to arrest him. He was tipped off and fled the state, never to make an appearance in our life again. The bad news is, he kind of broke my mom. I don’t…

I saw Bob Dylan in concert in the early 80s. He wasn’t that great. He sat there and played his songs and made no effort to connect with the audience. I appreciated that I was listening to Bob Dylan (whom I love) but I could have saved my money and just sat at home and listened to my albums and gotten the same…

My mother actually tried to abort me. She tried all of the old wives tales, drinking weird concoctions, even throwing herself down a flight of stairs. She never told me about her efforts but did tell my older sister, who told me. I never let my mother know that I knew. So, when people ask me that question, I am…

I feel like Charlton Heston crying “I didn’t know it was so beautiful” when watching old footage of life on Earth in the movie “Soylent Green.”

Don’t be sad. As a legal secretary who sometimes got to type those letters, secretaries also shared those letters with their co-workers. Everyone loves this sort of stuff.