this put my mind at ease about the new portmanteau. i had been feeling guilty
i live in a very rural area as well; travel is always an issue for me.

i think what stymies me the most, though, is feeling unsafe.
big men in big trucks circled a local school waving confederate flags, irons on their hip, spit flying from their teeth. if fascism comes full swing, my town would have shirtless, bald parapolice riding down the hollows in the back of a truck in a heartbeat.
trying times.