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Chat with Deb—My Wife, the Anarchist

But Ides of March, not the Fifth of November

Jack Herlocker
2 min readMar 12, 2025
My wife Deb, ready to unleash anarchy when needed (photo by author, modified in Pixelmator Pro)

DEB: You should do a story about your wife, the anarchist!

My wonderful wife has fallen in with a bad crowd. Well, an online group, anyway, “Blue Dots of York County” on Facebook (Deb uses Facebook more than I do, but with my account). They (and others) have been publicizing a mass protest to send postcards to the White House on March 15 (the Ides of March) telling Trump “YOU’RE FIRED!”

DEB: I have all these postcards I’ve saved over the years. I’m going to see if any of them have a connection to telling Trump he’s fired.

Later.

DEB: So! I have a postcard of Nuremberg that I got in Germany, one of Paris from when we were there with Mom and Dad and the girls [nieces], one of Toronto from one of my trips up there, and one from China that I got from Fran [former boss — Deb helped her downsize when she moved].

Deb’s incendiary postcards (so far) (photo by author)

DEB: The Nuremberg card I wrote, “Because you disrespected our soldiers and veterans”; the Paris one I wrote, “Because you have alienated our European allies”; the Toronto one I wrote, “Because you have offended…

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Jack Herlocker
Jack Herlocker

Written by Jack Herlocker

Husband & retiree. Author. Former IT geek/developer. I fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Occasionally do weird & goofy things.

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