Oh G-d It's Almost September Already?!
I know we're supposed to be Positive Mental Atttitude... but 2020 really is a dumpster fire of a year.
Hey there. It’s been a weird year, huh?
The summer of 2020’s has been... different. No diner breakfasts. No Saturday afternoons at White Sox games. No taking the kid to the playground. No live shows. No going to the mall. Lining up in a queue six feet apart to buy a damned cup of coffee or go to the post office. Lots of things. But we’re hanging in there!
In a normal year, my family would hop on an airplane to visit relatives and friends in another part of the country for vacation. But we have a 20-month-old, and… have you ever met 20-month-olds? They’re freakin’ germ machines. The last time I flew with my kid pre-COVID, he kept on licking the airplane window over and over again. He thought it was the funniest thing. That doesn’t work these days.
But I *did* get to go on vacation this year, and it was pretty damned good. My wife, kid and I rented a house for a long weekend about 90 minutes away from our Chicago home in South Bend, IN. It turns out that South Bend has really good beaches …
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