Must be Monday.

It has been over a month since my last post. I really have not been that busy, I just have had nothing to really talk about. Maybe I am buying into the media hype, but lately I do not have a good feeling about things. Everyone in the world has gone completely nuts. The war in Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Israel, global warming, and terrorists…what is next? locusts?

Having a very young daughter, I think about moving away from Massachusetts, and from the U.S. altogether. I would like to go somewhere where things move a little slower and people are not so completely angry and miserable. Maybe a small farm in the Netherlands or a studio apartment in Stockholm. Just to put things in perspective, to put my family and myself first. I am not saying other places do not have their share of problems, but I have been becoming disenchanted with America for some time now.

I honestly believe that America is the greatest country in the world, but we are totally blowing it. With all of our wealth and our vast resources we could be so much better. Imagine taking the billions of dollars we have spent on the war in Iraq and investing it the nation’s schools? The cost for one month in Iraq could completely pay for the rebuilding of New Orleans. The money Washington has wasted could have paid for the beginnings of a universal health care system. The list is endless.

There is no perfect place in the world, there will always be disease, poverty and crime, but something has been wired into us in this country. We are losing our souls. Envy, greed, gluttony…those are words that can be used to describe us. It may be too late for me, but I really do not want to raise my daughter in a country that just does not seem to care about itself anymore.