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The Next Stop Tour: ???

https://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPsU8OC7JhkvY8U/giphy.mp4 We’re stuck. For now. We’ve been looking for a new place to live, or at least a new place to check out to live, for some time now. But it’s been a bit of a slog recently. Not only finding a place. But finding a place to check out. Most of Florida is too… Read More The Next Stop Tour: ???

September 16, 2018September 15, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

Me, too

I have, in my life, made a move or two on a woman that turned out to be, to my clear and complete embarrassment, utterly unwanted. Every dude I know, at least of my age and sexual preference, probably has. Almost certainly has. I remember in a hotel elevator once, late after a night of… Read More Me, too

September 12, 2018September 8, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

Know what you don’t know

I bought a new laptop. It has a keyboard. And a screen. It has a bunch of “ports,” which is a fancy laptop-type word for a place to plug things into. It has a good battery so you don’t have to, you know, always plug a plug into a port. After the laptop love of… Read More Know what you don’t know

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

A small wish

Every day — let me admit this right up front — I punch up CNN on my phone or slide over to it on my browser and look, with wild-eyed hope, for something millions of us are practically praying to see. We don’t wish harm upon the man, of course. We don’t want him dead.… Read More A small wish

August 25, 2018August 25, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

An unhealthy like

Maybe we all get this way with the tools of our trade. Plumbers, probably, have their favorite wrenches. Carpenters their favored hammer. Politicians … whatever politicians use on a regular basis. Probably voters. Or lies. We all have a strange attraction to the things that help us through our day, that get the work done,… Read More An unhealthy like

August 14, 2018August 9, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

Chilling Out in an Unchill World

I wrote this a while back. It was lost in my ever-growing Drafts tab before I ever got a chance to punch Publish. It’s a little dated now, but I put in the work, so here it is … The Russian president, who is a former KGB agent and an all-around bad guy, is meeting… Read More Chilling Out in an Unchill World

August 12, 2018August 8, 2018 John DonovanLeave a comment

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