Napkins, I have come to learn over the past few months, are the secret to a good in-vehicle eating experience. Tons of them. As many as the hard-working masked woman (maybe man?) at the little window behind the Plexiglas shield will hand over. The sad fact is, you can’t not make at least a little… Read More The Art of Eating In
Four months into the coronavirus crisis, and four tortuous months until the next presidential election, I’m beginning to wonder whether we’ll make it to next weekend. Every day, every hour, every fricking minute these days is a slog. Everything is a battle. Everybody’s mad. Whaddya say — just spitballing here — that we all self-isolate… Read More Everybody’s Mad
These times that we live in — these, right here, right now — are extraordinary, aren’t they? I’m old enough (quiet, already!) to have lived through a half-dozen wars, a president being assassinated (c’mon, I was a baby), a couple of other ones being shot at, the first moon landing, the fall of the Berlin… Read More Our Times
This week, in a normal world, I’d be throwing my sticks into the back of the car, snagging the biggest Coke Zero I could wrap my fingers around, and motoring off toward South Carolina and my annual golf trip with my brothers. We’ve recently established, though — by we, I mean everybody — that this… Read More Whifffff
We churn along in this endless cycle, waking up, zombie-ing through the days, eating, sleeping, repeating, repeating, repeating … (Wait a second. I’ve been told — by my partner in pandemic, my compatriot in Covid circumvention, the disease-dodging doyenne of the Donovan-DiLonardo household ((my wife, Mary Jo)) — that my posts during this coronavirus lockdown… Read More Moving On
Anniversaries always provide a convenient time to reflect, especially so now that we’re all trapped helplessly inside our homes while a fricking virus ravages the world outside. Sorry. Venting. Won’t happen again. Positive thoughts, everybody. Positive. While trying to keep from going hair-ripping, batguano crazy recently — I usually do this by researching and writing… Read More 25 Years Inside the Internet
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