A stormy day in Scotland. The title may be About My World, but it's also about your world today, too. In case you've had your head in the sand, this is an election year. Now, I take the right to vote very seriously. Do you remember learning that the U.S. did not allow women to vote until 1920? Because of the tremendous courage of the suffragettes who took it into their hands to fight for us, we were born with that right. Those women grew tired of being possessions, of men telling them they were crazy if they disagreed with how men treated them. How would you feel today if you knew men considered you less intelligent than the lowest male? Google The Night of Terror, Nov. 15, 1917. I remember when I was a little girl and we came back to Key West from Panama. While we lived in Panama, I don't think expatriates had access to voting. But that first year back was a year when the U.S, voted for the next president. I don't remember how it started, but I remember Dad giving Mom a lecture. It was about voting, the candidates and how women didn't know enough to make an intelligent choice. Sorry, I was too young to remember who the candidates were.   Well, let me tell you something. Mom was a Virginia girl. Lovely with jet black hair and big brown eyes and a dimple in her left cheek. She was always utterly polite and dignified. Wowzer! You should have seen her come unglued. She told Dad, in no uncertain terms, that she had brains of her own, and if he thought she was going to blindly vote where he demanded, he could jump off a pier into the ocean! You should have seen his face. Priceless. That's why I remember. But you know what? He had the nerve to ask her after they voted if she'd done as he told her. She told him she voted for the man she knew would be the best president.   After that, Dad knew better than to try to tell her how to vote. She voted into her late 90's when she needed a walker to get up to the voting booth and had to have someone pull the curtain for her. Mom's mind was still sharp up until the month before she passed away at a hundred years old. We always knew better than to ask whom she voted for!   It's one of my favorite memories. So, do take your voting rights seriously. Don't let anything keep you from the polls. Study the candidates and their issues, how they will not only affect the country but women and our children's futures. Then pick the person you believe will best lead this country. Never once have I missed voting. Too many people suffered to give me that privilege. Ack! His ladylove wasn't mooning over that hunky eagle. They've set up a nest together…complete with eggs. No wonder his eye twitches! Watch it for a minute or two and you'll see it.