To Blog, To Blog, To Blog!

I very much enjoy blogging!  I have three personal blogs and several with my classes...AND each of my students has his/her own blog!  Why do I blog?  The power of reflection is immense, and this genre has become quite the journal of my literary life.  I, also, enjoy reading other's blogs and follow many within my Feedly account.

Blogs I Follow:

• Literary Life:  I follow many, including some literary peers and leaders in our curriculum area, including Dana Huff and The Daring English Teacher.
• Crafty Chics:  When I have time...and one day when I retire...I want to grow up and be just like these cutie sites:  Debbie Doo's and Magnolia Market...as in, Joanna Gaines!
• Devotional Delights
• Bookish Thoughts:  I follow another of Dana Huff's blogs, where she posts reflections on books as she reads them.  I, too, have such a blog here at TG Book Thoughts.  (No, I haven't read as many books as I had hoped this year...had hoped to read one per week...but this year threw a couple of curve balls into that plan.)

An Impactful Post...or Two:

ISIS: Enemy of the State and World?

Here, in the good ol' United States of America, we often are so busy with our busyness that we forget the enemies we have abroad.  One those remains the group ISIS, a group...

According to Annie Barnard and Hwiadi Saad in their article "Raqqa, ISIS ‘Capital,’ Is Captured, U.S.-Backed Forces Say," they report, "American-backed forces said...they had seized the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, a major blow to the militant group..."  While we sit here in the comfort of our schools and homes, our troops are overseas fighting an enemy that drifts to the back of our minds, hardly ever surfacing, leaving us living in a state of "fake" happiness...maybe?

My concern?  This:  "The United States Central Command stopped short of declaring victory, saying that 'more than 90 percent of Raqqa is in S.D.F. control,' a reference to the Syrian Democratic Forces, an American-backed militia group made up of Syrian Kurds and Arabs."  Do the math.  That leaves 10%.  Too many for too much celebration, for this group seems to have not problem recovering, recruiting, and retaliating.

Americans need to know and read and learn and care what happens.