I'd like to share my thoughts of why I think that Hillary Clinton would be the best choice as our next president.

First, I have to honestly say that a large part of it is because I liked what Bill Clinton did as president and I am pretty sure that Hillary will have similar policies and approaches.

One of the first things that Clinton did was to lift the ban on fetal tissue research. Prior to this, the Reagan and Bush administrations had callously ignored the pleas from the scientific and medical communities to lift the ban. My mother had Parkinsons for the last 25 years of her life. Her neurologist told us that this Reagan/Bush imposed ban was one reason that little progress had been made to find new treatments for Parkinsons.

Ironically, years later when Ronald Reagan was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's, his wife became an advocate for lifting the Bush imposed ban on stem cell research.

What was very meaningful to me is that  Clinton was aware of the suffering of people with Parkinsons, diabetes, Alzheimers, and other diseases that could be helped by further research -- even though he didn't have family members with these diseases.

Health insurance is important to me.

I can count myself as one of the lucky ones. After 30 years of working in state government, my husband retired with health insurance for the rest of our lives. I realize that nothing in life is 100% certain. The state could go bankrupt. The law could be modified so that we are forced to go onto medicare. But we are about as secure as anyone can be these days.

So why do I worry? It's because no one is an island. We're all tied together.

A few nights ago I was watching Deja vu, a 2006 movie starring Denzel Washington. I've always liked time travel stories, and I thought this was one of the best-constructed ones I've seen.

In this movie, a ferryboat in New Orleans is blown up on Fat Tuesday, killing over 500 people, many of them children. Doug Carlin, a federal ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent, is called in to the investigation. He learns that the surveillance team he is working with has access to a time window that allows them to monitor the events that led up to the explosion. The team uses this ability to try to discover the identity of the killer. Doug convinces them to use it to send him back in time to try to prevent the explosion.

I find time travel stories intriguing, especially ones where the rules of time travel make it possible for the time traveler to change the past. It usually inspires fantasies of how great it would be to go back in time and avert some great disaster.