Results of the November Election
It really is impossible to know how one candidate's triumph over another during an election will affect your life. Here is the straight truth: I have a flat loaf of too-strong Pepper Rosemary Bread cooling on my stove and cabbage in my fridge because Obama was reelected. But that is not all, friends. No, that is, by far, just the beginning of it. Exactly three weeks after I made the short walk to my voting precinct, I heard rustling at my door and a purposeful knock. I opened the door to find an enormous box. My neighbor was smiling behind it. "I've signed up for weekly delivery of local, organic produce. With Obama president for another four years, I thought I would do my part," she explained. I didn't quite follow her explanation, only that she had more food than she and her husband could eat... far more than she could even fit in her tiny kitchen. We were just beginning to see the bottom of our Thanksgiving leftovers, having a neighbor share their abu...