My daughter is not speaking to me, for reasons unclear. This has been very painful, but I finally decided that I would try to send her a nice, light-hearted text, once a month. Not the easiest thing to do under the circumstances. Here is the story about the one I sent in July.
I had received an email from Adam Schiff, one of my favorite guys. In it he described how Donald Trump has been ranting idiotically about him, first calling him a “pencil neck” and then a “watermelon head.”
A few days later I thought – I’m going to send Adam Schiff an email! I wrote the following:
Dear Adam Schiff,
You are a good-looking guy. I’m sorry the orange idiot is calling you a pencil neck and a watermelon head. But at least it gives me a good laugh every time I think about it!
Best regards,
Daria Doering
Then I had to find Adam Schiff’s email address. I looked online and found one, but my email bounced back as undeliverable. It happened again with another one. My assumption is that Adam Schiff gets so much hate mail from Republicans that he doesn’t make it easy to reach him.
So I went to his website, and found that you can send him an email from there, but only if you live in his district, and provide your physical address. I had no idea where in California his district was, so I looked it up and found a map. It’s the eastern part of Los Angeles. As I contemplated how to get my hands on an address there, I realized that my daughter probably lives in his district! I tried her address, and voila, it worked!
So I sent my daughter a text, telling her that I had “borrowed” her address, with a copy of my email. No reply, but I hope she got a chuckle.
Daria Doering 
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