So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the sixty-eighth edition. Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.) My five latest posts are at the end of this newsletter, latest first. *** One poem, which I send on to you, was birthed by this week's Midterm election . I hope that you managed to scrape through our biennial self-inflicted turmoil without any major injuries. While much of the country retained or acquired a bluish or purplish hue, Florida stayed painted a solid red. In North Florida this is the color we expect. This poem, Who Owns My Vote? is nonpartisan. It has more to do with just utilizing your vote, than with wielding it as a bludgeon against your foe. We are all in this election process together, collaborating and comingling our opinions in a sort of grand mediation or arbitration. We compromise our positions only begrudgingly, and muddle along, without the help of a skilled facilitator, until we reach the outcome. It's a wonder we don't come to blows every year. My NaNoWriMo (November Novel Writing Month) plans have been befuddled by real life this week but I did manage to eke out a bit over 2000 words on two separate projects. I also received two rejection letters this past month, which, as I understand it, brings me 98 rejection letters closer to acceptance. Hope you enjoy the poem. For a taste of what we face in this red state, you may also want to read Frat Boy. Andrea *** If you haven't signed up for my newsletter yet, I hope you will consider doing so. And tell your friends! There's a blue signup form on every page. You can also follow my Twitter account, @AndreaLedew,which posts my previously published blogposts, poems and flash fiction. This will give you an idea of just how much mischief I've been up to over the past five or six years. Thanks again for your continued readership and support. It means a lot to me. Have a great week! Andrea The links below will take you to the five most recent posts. The blue logo takes you to the homepage. The section on English Majors has the most recent stuff.

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