Ask Howard • 07-19-24
Summertime serendipity What do fancy yellow diamonds, green college freshmen and feisty orange kittens all have in common? Not one single, colorful thing.
Yet we Americans hold our breath in unison, suspending disbelief at what’s to become of us all the normalcy-annihilating Election Day.
Meanwhile, am I alone here in assessing that our current summer season seems bizarrely defined by a series of most unusual occurrences happening at a personal level on almost a regular, daily basis?
Is it only me, or is this summer’s bizzarro-factor just off the charts? In homage to the late Shelley Duvall, her award-winning Faerie Tale Theatre is the template I’ve chosen to incorporate here, via a troika of short vignettes, experiences from my own private life’s odd reality during this anxious summer. ACT ONE: J.
