by Chris Kelly | Mar 27, 2020 |
In the world we lived in a few weeks ago, I would have started today with a Facebook post like: “If you see my wife, Chrissy Kelly, today, wish her a happy birthday.” (The photo on this blog popped up today as a Facebook Memory from 2012.) Other than me...
by Chris Kelly | Mar 26, 2020 |
Last year’s calendar is on top of the refrigerator, a page folded down to show a family gathering. It was a funeral luncheon for my beloved Cousin Tim, but everyone is smiling and supplied with one of his favorite cigars. We sent him off the way he wanted, with...
by Chris Kelly | Mar 25, 2020 |
The Empire State is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in America and on its way to being ground zero for the world. Just watched New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest update. As of noon today, his state had 30,418 cases and 285 people dead. Cuomo said the...
by Chris Kelly | Mar 24, 2020 |
Late diary today. Wednesday’s column came first. The TV is on the background most of the day, with brief blasts of Spotify to break up the monotony. Also, I’d rather suffer through the most incomprehensible Wagnerian opera than sit through another of...
by Chris Kelly | Mar 23, 2020 |
Got my papers today. In the increasingly likely event that Gov. Tom Wolf adds Lackawanna to the list of seven counties he closed today, I’ll be free to travel — as long as I’m working. Because Wolf rightly recognizes local newspapers as...
