I'll Call It Like I See It

by sheila morris

storytelling for truth lovers

  • for Men – I’ve got a secret for your eyes only

    for Men – I’ve got a secret for your eyes only


    Donald Trump is a 78-year-old man whose memory is much like mine because I’m also 78 years old and therein lies the first and only trait I share with the former president who is a convicted felon. I know for 100% certainty I shouldn’t be President of the United States. I can’t remember what I just had for breakfast this morning, and Donald Trump can’t remember slamming Detroit when he was in Detroit.

    And yet, guys, you overwhelmingly support him. I think I know why, and it’s not what you usually say when asked about your potential vote.

    “We need a strong leader” is code for women can’t be strong leaders.

    “Trump will make our borders more secure” is code for “illegal aliens” are taking our jobs.

    “Crime is out of control” is code for Harris is weak on criminals.

    And on and on.

    Psst. Here’s my theory for why men aren’t supporting Kamala Harris. Vice President Harris is a mixed-race woman, a female who doesn’t know her place.

    Think about it. Why else would men want to vote for an old man who struggles to know what day it is – much less can tell you what NATO stands for.

    That’s my secret, and I’m sticking with it. But I hope I’m wrong. Come on, man. Please. Think outside the Trump box.

  • women hang in there, no matter what – and now we VOTE

    women hang in there, no matter what – and now we VOTE


    We survive war and conquest; we survive colonization, acculturations,
    assimilation; we survive beating, rape, starvations, mutilation, sterilization,
    abandonment, neglect, death of our children, our loved ones, destruction of
    our land, our homes, our past, and our future. We survive, and we do more
    than just survive. We bond, we care, we fight, we teach, we nurse, we bear,
    we feed, we earn, we laugh, we love, we hang in there, no matter what.

    —— Paula Gunn Allen,

    The sacred hoop: recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions

    “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.”

    traditional Cheyenne saying

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    Photo by Vincent Tan on Pexels.com

    Speak up. Speak out. We’re not going back.

    VOTE

  • Hurricane Helene, Israel v Iran, lives well lived, first and 10 for Coach Walz tonight – and one special birthday

    Hurricane Helene, Israel v Iran, lives well lived, first and 10 for Coach Walz tonight – and one special birthday


    Headlines scary for high stakes happenings in the past week – my head is rotating at warp speeds that add well-defined layers to my general free-floating anxiety. Missiles in the Middle East, final sounds of a Sunday morning going down for British actor Maggie Smith and Texas songwriter/actor Kris Kristofferson, Hurricane Helene ravaging the states in the Southeastern section of the United States, a Veep debate tonight between a high school teacher/coach who became governor of Minnesota and a venture capitalist fiction writer who became a senator from Ohio. The mind races to absorb the twists and turns of a world gone mad in many ways to this nonfiction writer who actually voted for a President Jimmy Carter in 1976, a man who celebrates his 100th birthday today.

    But yesterday Pretty and I took a break from the troubles of Hurricane Helene which miraculously left us safe and relatively sound to spend the day with our granddaughter Ella who didn’t have school because the school had no power, her home had no power, but her grandmothers’ home was loaded with fun and power. How old will you be tomorrow, my darling girl? I’ll be 5, Naynay!

    All pool toys had been put up over the weekend, but Ella couldn’t wait for next year to christen the new pool liner so…out she and her Nana came for an afternoon fling on her birthday eve.

    Ella always brings the joy when she visits, and yesterday was icing on the “pretend” birthday cake. She and her Nana had fun with fashion shows, body paintings, gathering acorns while they might from our gigantic oak tree that withstood the winds of Hurricane Helene but mostly they both celebrated their love of the swimming pool. Brrrr is all I can say.

    I was thrilled when Ella finally allowed me for the first time in her five years to completely read a book that she chose. She loved it so much she asked me to read it again. The book? 101 Dalmatians.

    Soon she will be reading it to me. I can’t wait!

    Happy Birthday, Ella – your Nana and I love you to the moon and back.

  • hey, girls, raise your hands if you feel better?

    hey, girls, raise your hands if you feel better?


    Jill Colvin of the Associated Press reported yesterday (September 25th.) on former president Trump’s remarks in Pennsylvania two days earlier.

    On Monday night, Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women, saying in battleground Pennsylvania that he will save them from fear and loneliness and they will no longer have to think about abortion.

    “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger. … You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today,” Trump said. “You will be protected, and I will be your protector.”

    Houston, we have a problem.

  • Morning Joe, Tennis Channel, or Sunrise?

    Morning Joe, Tennis Channel, or Sunrise?


    Every morning my dog Carl and I are the first creatures to stir in our household and, after his morning constitutional around the backyard, he takes his first nap of the day while I weigh my before-the-dawn-cracks television programming options.

    Third choice goes to the Tennis Channel if there is a “Live” match from across any Ponds with players I enjoy watching in a different time zone from our Eastern Daylight Time. Jet lag is my constant friend during the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon tournaments – and I never have to leave the comfort of my recliner in the den.

    Second choice belongs to Morning Joe, the MSNBC news show that begins a four-hour time slot at 6:00 a.m. with co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. Morning Joe would probably be #1 for me if it were Morning Mika and/or had producers with less interest in a former president who is a convicted felon. Ugh. Same old, same old.

    But my Number One early morning favorite goes to…(drum roll, please)… Sunrise! on local WIS TV-10 from 4:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.

    “Sunrise” team Jamal Goss, Intisar Faulkner, Chandlor Jordan (weather)

    I’m not sure what these young people drink with their coffee, but whatever it is, I’d like to have some. If they don’t enjoy what they’re doing, they hide it well with onscreen fun, shared laughter, corny jokes, subtle reluctance to deliver bad news. My cynical old self has been won over by these fresh smiling faces.

    Do you have a Top Three to start your day? Inquiring minds want to know.