5/6/2004 12:20:20 PM|||Amy|||Today, as I was reading the news - I thought (as I often do when I'm reading the news) that I am really lucky. Yes, I may be in a horrible situation and I may be having some trouble dealing with it, but I have a place to live, to raise my children. I can provide my family with all the essentials, and I have a great job. I am very lucky in that, as of yet, no one is setting bombs off in the local restaurants or blowing up bridges in my city. I can send my children to decent schools, and I have a family, that even though some of them have their issues, care enough about my children and me to help us out when we need it. My children are healthy, and it is within my ability to provide them with healthcare when they are sick. I can write freely about the privileges we enjoy and often take for granted, and I can criticize without fear of retribution (or significant retribution, anyway) the very society and government that has made it possible. I am really, really lucky.|||108386444012695910|||