Michael L. Ross Author

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@JennMGreenberg FWIW, my dad saved up $25 and paid his tuition to college, 1949. He worked three jobs all the way through. No support from parents. Eventually he got a master's from Stanford in math. Not everyone gets parental support. I was lucky, my parents supported me through college. 1949.

When I was a teenager, my dad didn’t want me to go to college. He told me, “Men will only ever view you as a piece of meat. You need to get used to that. Educating women is a waste of money.” We were a “Christian” homeschooling family. Most parents homeschool their kids to give them an exemplary tailored education. I think mine wanted to isolate us so people wouldn’t notice the abuse as easily. My mom taught me to read, write, and basic math. When I turned 10 or 11 years old, that all stopped. I was given a stack of fairly random books and essentially told, “Good luck.” I taught myself algebra by looking at the teacher’s answer book, comparing it to the problem in my math book, and trying to figure out how they got to that solution. I would sometimes spend hours working on one problem. My dad refused to help me. He said I was too stupid. I realized that I was never taught geography and world history, and I was terrified that there would be huge holes in my education. I read Darwin’s Origin of the Species and several of my dad’s science and theology books. I read through the entire set of World Book Encyclopedias and wrote reports about the entries that particularly interested me. When I was 17 I got my GED and was accepted into the University of Houston. My dad didn’t want me to go and refused to pay for it. I got an hourly job and saved up enough money to afford one semester. I went. I met my husband Jason the first month at school. I ended up dropping out because of family drama and no money. I managed to scrounge together funds for a few accounting and business classes at a community college. Three years later, Jason and I got married. All that to say, I take the right of girls to attend college very seriously. It’s not just a feminist cause to me. It’s not about ego or sticking it to men. It’s personal. It’s moral. It’s the defiance of the evil of misogyny and abuse. And I will not tolerate anyone who tries to take that right away.

@JennMGreenberg Glad you made it, and sorry that happened to you.

@Jessicam6946 Yes.

Are any of you young enough to remember the Challenger explosion 39 years ago today?

@TCNetworkFans Yes. Like going from a beat up 1958 Rambler to a new Lamborghini.

Do you agree Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary is a HUGE UPGRADE from Karine Jean-Pierre? A. YES B. NO

@SaveAmericaNew Bye!

🚨BREAKING: Bill Gates says he will leave the USA if the Epstein Client List is released. What's your reaction??

@deaflibertarian Why is that, do you think?

Yes, like 80% of the deaf community are liberals. 80% is a guess but I am confident it’s close to that.

Alas more deaf people who know me IRL found this account and are pissed that I am not a liberal. They can go fuck themselves.

@VividProwess I have, would love to come again.

Would you?

#BooksWorthReading *

@IllyNOTLilly 8 track

Mine was a cassette 😂 You?

@deaflibertarian Don't. If you can't afford to make it a gift, just don't.

What is your rule about loaning money to family and friends?

@TrumpVVon Except none of them will. It's all posturing - and who would really care?

@realTrumpNewsX Hope so!

@matthew_west 🙏

I voted AND prayed for our nation today. Did you? Drop a 🙏 in the replies if you did too. #DontStopPraying

@EmmaArtworkx Hi, Happy birthday!

@MTGrepp 🙏

I have now got back down on my knees for the 2nd time today to pray to our Lord and Savior 🙏 Join me one more time to give a prayer to Jesus Christ for giving us this MASSIVE win Reply with a “🙏” if you have prayed

@RebeccaEvita Disease

@lippyent Even more difficult, a truck. Try parallel parking on the Mall in DC in a pickup with no power steering...

Hmm 🤔?¿

@klhicks912 Either the real person's name, or based on what names were popular when my character was born.

How do you choose your character names?

@musings_blonde 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I woke to the news that my dad has a brain tumor. Please pray 🙏🏼 I saw him for his 70th birthday last weekend & he seemed off. I gave him a cognitive eval yesterday & he didn’t pass. His doctor read the results & sent him to the ER. I saw the MRI results at 2 a.m. Haven’t slept