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The Road Ahead

Some of the words being flung around in mid-March 2020 — historic, surreal, unprecedented, social distancing — don’t nearly, can’t nearly, convey what a whacked-out world this suddenly has become. When at some point we look back on this period, in a few months or a few years, many of us probably will settle on… Read More The Road Ahead

March 18, 2020April 20, 2020 John DonovanLeave a comment

This is 2020

Some years, before they ever really begin, simply feel more weighty. They portend something momentous. They promise the life-altering. This is what 2020 brings. This could be — it just feels like — a big one. Every year, to be certain, has its milestones and its speed bumps. 2019 was like that. 2019 was all… Read More This is 2020

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 John DonovanLeave a comment

Leave the Driving to Them

At the end of next week, Mary Jo, Luke and I will be making our 22nd straight Christmas drive to Cincinnati, the third time Mary Jo and I have made the trip this year. That ride, let me tell you, is not getting any shorter. From our home in the northern Atlanta suburbs, it takes… Read More Leave the Driving to Them

December 12, 2019December 10, 2019 John DonovanLeave a comment

Wood Work

Sometime around 2003 — I’m pretty sure it was 2003 — our still-young family left our little house in a wooded suburb of northern Atlanta looking for a little more space, a little better neighborhood and a little more tree cover. Trees are one of the best things about the Atlanta area. Really. Anyone who… Read More Wood Work

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 John DonovanLeave a comment

Recycling, Again

When you live anywhere for any length of time, you accumulate. We’ve been in our house now for 16 years or so, just for an example, and there’s not a closet, a nook, a cranny, a cabinet, not a single corner of our unfinished basement that doesn’t have something stuffed into it. And that something,… Read More Recycling, Again

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 John DonovanLeave a comment

Into the Great Unknown

Retirement always has been some sort of faraway concept to me, a fuzzy dream that may or may not contain beaches, golf, exotic vacations, lounging around in various stages of undress with your still-hot, always smiling spouse, and lots of time to volunteer, to read and to work on projects that you never really found… Read More Into the Great Unknown

August 25, 2019August 23, 2019 John DonovanLeave a comment

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