Start thinking about tomorrow

They decided to end their relationship after forty years, following Al Gore’s rise and fall in politics, and rise and disappearance in public fame. After he failed in his bid for the Presidency, failing to win his own state of Tennessee, he ballooned in size and became a bushy professor, growing a monstrous beard.

Mary Elizabeth Atchison aka “Tipper” grew up in Arlington Virginia in a nice middle class neighborhood that is today too unaffordable for middle class people. She’s away yonder in Tennessee and I suspect surrounded by conservative politics that goes against her grain.

Al is stuck at home at a dead end, and perhaps she still wants to pursue her demonstrated talents, being more personally influential. According to the CNN biography and borrowing from an article in Good Housekeeping, “Tipper put her family first, giving up a career she could have pursued either as a photographer or a psychologist. Of that decision Tipper said, "I was of course, immediately conflicted by giving up something that I loved doing" (She quit her job as a photographer for the Nashville Tennessean in 1976 to campaign for her husband.)”

Start thinking about tomorrow.