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The group of kids and adults you see standing behind the Airmen spend Friday at a local airbase learning about aviation and Saturday learning the history of the Tuskegee Airmen. Callie O. Gentry served as a stenographer form Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.,  the commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, shared fantastic stories about her time serving in the military before and after the war. Peggy has kept Clarence’s legacy as both a pilot and an artist alive at through the Shivers Fund, which provides educational and enrichment opportunities through her local library district in Colorado. In addition to discussing the book, and my other aviation book, Flygirl, we dreamed big on travel, curiosity, and where we’d love to go in the world.

Which means three things:  1) Time flies; 2) I am waaaay behind on my holiday shopping and baking, and 3) this is the final month of the Book Club for the New Administration! There is purportedly an old Chinese blessing I used to hear as a kid, and later learned it’s meant to be a curse: “May you live in interesting times. The horrid realities behind the #MeToo movement clearly show a need for our young people to be taught both early and unequivocally where the lines are drawn between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens’ most loved books – a true classic and a Christmas time must-read.

As the month progresses, I find myself trying to divine what The Topic of Conversation is in our society– what is going on that could use some attention by the current Administration. Toward the end of the interview, white rights supporter Jason Kessler makes the leap from losing out on a job to a white woman with different qualification to the claim that white men are victims of “genocide by replacement” in the United States, which he terms “a white country. Gran goes on to spend time with Darcy, point out the good things in her life, and show how the baby isn’t always in the way. In light of the Harvey Weinstein inspired #metoo movement to expose sexual harassment and sexual assault: The Book Club for the New Administration Selection for November is: Vivian Carter is fed up.

In light of Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands (along with the rest of the Caribbean), and the headlines about our government’s slow response, I wonder how the citizens are responding to each other and fending for themselves. But what struck me about the above interview was how much it sounds like a child in fear of the new baby, and how their place in the family structure will change– possibly suffer– because of the new addition. And so, the book component of October’s selection is : Synopsis:  Darcy and Gran are not happy about the idea of a new baby coming, but they change their minds after the birth. Whether you read Cutler’s book or any other book about the fears of a child over a new family member, try to look at it from a sociopolitical point of view.