It was in the locker room, before one of our late Saturday night hockey games, that my brother-in-law, Jack, threw out the offer: He was going to rent a house while he was going to grad school at...
Author - David Beedle
Super-Duper Missile?I say “Cease and Desist!” Here’s a bit from my stupid community college video project from the 1980s. Proof that maybe … just maybe … the term...
(AKA: Hunkered Down, Day 55) It could be a day to let sadness get to me, especially living in isolation as we all are, but that’s not going to happen. I’d like to say something meaningful...
I’m not going to make a big deal about Day 50—except to say that it never occurred to me that there would be a Day 50. Was I naive? Unaware? Uninformed? When the world gets dark I search for...
(AKA: Hunkered Down, Day 39) The other day I grabbed the HD TV monitor Max used back when he was in college and attached it to my work-at-home computer. Having a second monitor would give me more...
(AKA: My Weekend Project)
In response to this:
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I did this:
Attention fellow self-quarantiners: Soon the temperature will climb to 70 degrees, and the sun will smile upon my back yard. When it does, I will fetch my rope-connected flying golf balls and...
Easter, 2020. Planet Earth is trembling in front of me. I had plans, and this ugly mess has gotten in the way. My mind is fuzzy. I have all this time; there is nowhere to go. I want to read; my...
I saw this performance and realized that—out of necessity—something is returning to shows like these: the single take; the single shot. In these days of quarantine, there are now countless videos of...
Today, I am determined to write something positive. Determined, I tell you. I’ve got to stop scrolling Twitter at bedtime. I was so angry it kept me awake until 3:30 this morning. And I’m...
I don’t know about everyone else, but after all this is over I’m gonna be SET. I’m sending in my Publisher’s Clearing House form and it CLEARLY STATES that I am in the WINNING RANGE. It says it RIGHT...
This sheltering at home, hunkered down thing has revealed an undeniable truth: I observe coffee time and alcohol time. There are no other times.
I should know better than to look at the news before I go to bed. Don’t get angry. Don’t get angry. Don’t get angry. Your chance to take out some of that anger will arrive on the...
AKA: Hunkered Down, Day 12 As we spend this strange time together, I have a suggestion for you. You’re going to hear it, and two choices will come to mind: Sure, I’ll give that a try. Are you...
Still can’t believe there is such a thing as the Stone Skipping Championships. And that I watched it for an hour. Max started working at home last week. Salmon for dinner. Love salmon for...
(AKA: Hunkered Down, Day 6) What a lineup on ESPN 2 yesterday. Axe throwing. Cup stacking. Marble racing. Putt-putt. Nothing, however, was more jaw-droppingly captivating than the 51st Annual Stone...
The Ironton Rail-Trail is a great walking path close to our house. It used to be the Ironton Railroad, but was converted to a trail for walkers and bike riders for all of us suburbanites in Whitehall...
Well, that broke down pretty fast.
Turns out when you work at home you can power through that last hour of work with the help of a glass of wine.
It begins. Looks like this is life for the immediate future. Packed up my work stuff and moved it home. Computer from work: Check. Backup drives just in case: Check. Trusty Lehigh Valley...
March, 2020. The coronavirus hits hard and I start working from home. What I naively thought would be a few weeks stretched out for much longer. Here then, is the blog-within-a-blog, Hunkered Down...
David Beedle
My book “Punk Party” is available on Amazon and BookBaby. There’s links for it all over this website, so please visit. I’m also a motion graphics artist and video editor. Currently hunkered down with my wife, Laura.
