OPINION | GARY SMITH: You really should wear a mask
If we have firmly established one thing in our time together in this space, it's that I'm not the Hard News Guy.
On a regular basis these particular pages are filled with the thoughts of folks far mo...
October 23, 2020
GARY SMITH: A neighborly contest
In addition to all the fun family games we've learned while in Pandemic Lockdown, we've added a new backyard pastime: "Just Whose Yard Does This Belong In?"
I have to admit, we already had most of th...
October 16, 2020
GARY SMITH: Giving up the ghost?
I am all about streamlining processes, eliminating waste and creating situations where I don't have to do something more than once. Mostly, it's because I'm so lazy I don't really want to do it the fi...
October 9, 2020
GARY SMITH: No time for 2020
Those who know me will tell you I am somewhat oblivious to most things, even those that directly impact me. Potentially, that includes even those things directly impacting me at the moment (which expl...
October 2, 2020
GARY SMITH: My pandemic checklist
So, we're officially God only knows how far into the pandemic, which means we have God only knows how long to go before we officially have all the drastic measures we've had to take in the rear view m...
September 25, 2020
GARY SMITH: Vacation, on repeat
There was a concept that was foreign to me as a child and, frankly, even as a single adult that has grown on me to the degree that I'm not sure how I did without it previously. It's the family vacatio...
September 18, 2020
GARY SMITH:Pull the car over, now!
I get car sick. It's always been a thing (definitely for my parents, but, hey, I'm the youngest of three, so they knew the job was dangerous when they took it), but it seems to be getting worse with a...
August 28, 2020
GARY SMITH: Playing games
It is safe to say we are living in, as the old Chinese curse/wish puts it, "interesting times." Despite recent expansions of what we all might think possible in the way of social interaction, it's sti...
August 21, 2020
GARY SMITH: Some assembly suggested
I'm having to spend a lot of time lately assembling things. And as most everyone knows, no good can possibly come of that.
Let's take note here: I said assembling, not building or making, because bui...
August 14, 2020
Gary Smith: If a bear doesn’t get you …
When I think about things that live in the woods and are a real danger to attack and bite me and generally make my life miserable, I tend to think Big Picture – bears, wolves, ocelots (whatever those ...
August 7, 2020
GARY SMITH: Two-wheeled, but different
The Lovely Mrs. Smith and I decided to brave the big old world outside our driveway and see what life was like since the Before Times.
Or, we got away to a rented (and delivered by experts) RV to Eur...
July 31, 2020
GARY SMITH: Change is in the air, but apparently not in the store's cash register
It seems, as a nation, we have a problem, specifically a problem with change. Change is in the air. It is, however, not in the cash registers.
Apparently, there is a nationwide change shortage such t...
July 24, 2020
GARY SMITH: Have mask, will travel
More random thoughts from the Wear Your Mask front. Because the struggle is real and continues.
First, wear a mask. Seriously, if it's something you have to have to get into a Walmart, it's probably ...
July 17, 2020
GARY SMITH: Revised holiday plans
More dispatches from the working from home front, many of which might actually even be related to working from home:
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Remember when we used to get to this point on the calendar ...
July 3, 2020
GARY SMITH: Give me liberty!
Not to beat a dead horse, but ...
Here, in no apparent order, are several activities even the most liberty-conscious among us have decided we're at least reasonably OK with allowing to be governed by...
June 26, 2020