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Learning To Write Lawmakers, on Day 25/67?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      My thoughts on  Day 25 of my 67 night-school class set of lesson plans for GED/HiSet learners, are on how to build knowledge around reshaping our laws.
    I think that writing our lawmakers is an important start.  Laws may have changed since 2015 or so, when I initially wrote this, but it should still be a reasonable form letter, no?  This is an important part of Project Do Better.

I thought I had gotten this posted years ago, but cannot find it:

“The Honorable Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher
California House of Representatives
1350 Front Street
Suite 6022
San Diego, CA 92101
Tel: 619-338-8090
Fax: 619-338-8099

your name
address,
city, state zip
email
your phone

Dear Assemblywoman Gonzalez Fletcher,

I would like to request a bill which would benefit California residents. The state of Maryland has recently passed a law prohibiting lawsuits on any debts which have…

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Sometimes Silence Really Is Golden … — Filosofa’s Word

Sometimes when you have nothing to say, you should simply … say nothing.  Today, I have nothing of any importance to say, so I am giving you all (and myself) a break by saying nothing!  Meanwhile, though … I highly recommend that you go read Keith’s post today about workplace humour!  Guaranteed to make you […]

Sometimes Silence Really Is Golden … — Filosofa’s Word

♫ Summertime ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

It seems that I play this one once every summer!  It’s a sultry song that perfectly fits in with those dog days of summer.  Last year when I played it, our friend Clive said he preferred a version by an artist I never heard of before, Lana Del Rey.  Curious, I went for a listen […]

♫ Summertime ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

The Week’s Best Cartoons 8/20 — Filosofa’s Word

Sometimes these days I think that if I were a political cartoonist (I can’t even draw an egg properly, so no danger of that!) I would just post a black screen, or one depicting a super storm, for ‘bleak’ is the word that often comes to mind (thank you, Republicans, for the ulcer).  But this […]

The Week’s Best Cartoons 8/20 — Filosofa’s Word