Well, well, well… July 4^th seems as auspicious a day as any to try and restart this blog. I started it back in 20-aught-6 to chronicle my move from the US to Canada. So much personally and politically has happened since then (wowzers, is that an understatement).

In all honesty, I had forgotten I even had this blog. But I saw a meme on the socials the other day that jogged my memory. It said, “I don’t think the US deserves a birthday party this year.”

Sometimes I joke around that living in Canada these days is like living above a Meth Lab. Not that Canada doesn’t have its fair share of issues. It certainly does. It’s just that I feel like I am watching the decline of the country of my birth with a worry and sense of helplessness in the same way I might navigate a loved one with an active addiction; in this case, an addiction to white supremacy, Christian nationalism (are those two even different at this point?), late-stage capitalism, guns, heteronormativity and a death grip on the gender binary, oligarchy, and to so many other things that are bad for it.

I am going to try and make a concerted effort this time around to get this blog re-started, if for no other reason than for my own processing and therapeutic needs.

So, US, while it is indeed July 4^th, it would be disingenuous for me to say there is much “Happy” about it in 2023.