Author Archives: Allyn Gibson
Daily Cloud: October 3
My computer died last week. Not a surprise — it has been acting wonky for a few months now, like it would lose any sense of when it was. Finally, Wednesday evening, it pined for the fjords and, while it would power up, nothing happened. The lights would come on, the fan would kick in,Continue reading “Daily Cloud: October 3”
Daily Cloud: September 28
The Two Cell Towers in My Back Yard
The week of Labor Day, there was an industrial ruckus in my neighborhood. It was loud in my “office,” it was even louder outside. I had no idea what they were doing, but it sounded something like a hole was being drilled to the center of the Earth. It wasn’t until I came home fromContinue reading “The Two Cell Towers in My Back Yard”
Daily Cloud: September 18
Baseball Night in Lynchburg
Last weekend I visited my parents in Lynchburg, Virginia. This had been in the planning since April, though the reason for the visit was rescheduled to three weeks earlier, which I couldn’t go, but I went anyway, and, when I was there, besides visiting a picturesque cemetery in the mountains, we took in a LynchburgContinue reading “Baseball Night in Lynchburg”
Daily Cloud: September 17
A Cemetery in the Mountains
Last weekend I visited my parents in Lynchburg, Virginia, and this was only the second time I’d been there since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Having nowhere I needed to be in no specific hurry, on Friday I took a scenic route down through the Shenandoah Valley to Natural Bridge, then across Virginia Route 130 backContinue reading “A Cemetery in the Mountains”
Daily Cloud: September 14
For reasons unknown, by persons unknown, a single slice pizza box has been left atop the mailboxes. A doughy sacrifice to the postal gods? A new method of delivering pizza “the final mile”? Will it remain there tomorrow? Why not? It’s already been there for days. Insofar as clouds go, there were none to speakContinue reading “Daily Cloud: September 14”
Writing My State Legislators
Last week I wrote letters to my Pennsylvania state legislators. Why? Because both were hopping mad that Governor Tom Wolf’s Department of Health had issued a statewide mask mandate in the schools to stem the rising tide of COVID-19 infections due to the Delta variant. They issued a press release. Like I said, hopping mad.Continue reading “Writing My State Legislators”