Junction 54: Rushing back to normal?
My son has done quite well in school during the pandemic. For the past year of remote learning, John Michael has continued to excel academically. That’s...
February 25, 2021
Category: Junction 54
Junction 54: Blasting off with Otronicon
I was lucky back in 2006 to be part of a video game design panel at the first Otronicon (Orlando Electronic Interactive Convention). I hadn’t even...
February 12, 2021
Junction 54: Age-old struggle
I won’t lie, folks. I’m shaken. And I blame the bananas. The nice little old lady working at the Harris Teeter obviously meant well. Saw me...
February 4, 2021
Junction 54: The bike you rode in on
President Joe Biden rides a Peloton. So do I! It surprised me to learn that, apparently, this makes him – and, by association, me – an...
February 1, 2021
Junction 54: Y2K 2021
I’ve heard people compare today’s mood to Christmas Eve. That’s sweet, I suppose. What’s not to love about the idea of a magical old man bringing...
January 19, 2021
Junction 54: Life in the Time of Curfew
Life under the curfew in Durham, for me, hasn’t been all that different from life without the curfew. Recently, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper mandated that...
December 21, 2020
Junction 54: A Town Without Trees
This year, apparently, it was a bad idea to wait until two weeks before Christmas to get a real tree in Durham. We’ve got a fake...
December 11, 2020
Junction 54: Fresh Start
NOTE: Back in the 1990s, I wrote a column for The St. Petersburg Times called Junction 54, after State Road 54 – a main highway running...
December 7, 2020
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