Today marks the beginning of Big Ten Football, a conference that has agreed upon an eight game conference-only schedule. I should thank Trump for his intervention, right? Otherwise, how would I ever go on? I’ll MORE
Welcome back to “The Lounge” for October 16, 2020. You do realize it’s only 18 days until Election Day? In my view, that calls for a drink! We’ve made it this far! And just think MORE
Bottoms up to 2020. We’ve had to deal with a lot, haven’t we? From lockdowns, civil unrest, economic uncertainty, over 213,000 souls lost to COVID-19 and the efforts to dethrone the sitting president on November MORE
Well, who knew that our virus fatigue and our Trump fatigue would commingle into this kind of peculiar Happy Hour? It seems that the news today traveled faster than SARS-CoV-2, and left us wondering how MORE
It seems appropriate for our Friday News Views Happy Hour to be Ladies Night. Today’s conversation with my dear sweet dimunitive mom quickly led to us talking about the life and death of a cultural MORE
Peaches are everywhere at my house. All from one tree in my back yard. They’re on my patio, they’re on the kitchen counter, they’re in baskets, they’re in bags. Manna from the peach gods (that’s MORE
Happy Friday, Happy Labor Day Weekend! Good grief!! Has anyone given thought to a long holiday weekend? I’m sorry to rain on the parade of those still suffering heat waves, but it feels like fall MORE
After four long nights of drivel, droning on about the Dotard Party and the devilish Dotard himself, I have to admit I’m hung over. I’ve had a GOP headache for about the last three years, MORE
Happy Friday and Happy Happy Hour! I thought today we should drink to the newly-anointed Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, and tip our mugs to great possibilities in our not-so-distant future — not to mention the MORE
It’s the weekend! We made it to another Friday, and if it’s not 5:00 yet where you are, it will be soon. Hope you all are making plans to enjoy some quality weekend time before MORE
Perhaps you were stuck under a cactus and didn’t see what today is. Ready?? Imagine my excitement when I saw the news this morning, as smoke was curling out my ears, brainstorming for today’s Happy MORE
It’s been a week of staycation in my neck of the woods, and it’s remained hot and dry. As we’ve seemed to enter the dog days of summer, let me suggest you put your paws MORE
It’s 5:00 here in Culinary Confinement, where as luck might have it I came home with a bottle of Lime Absolut and some ginger beer. You can see where this is headed. If you are MORE
Well, there’s no place like home for the holidays, ’cause it matters how far away you roam. When you long for the safety of being virus-free, for the holidays, you can’t beat home sweet home. MORE
July is soon here, and it’s often during this hot month that we pack a cooler in the car and head “Up North” — a fuzzy, imaginary line that is somewhere 100 miles or so MORE
Summer is fast approaching! What I mean is the astronomical beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere is at our doorstep. It’s when the sun reaches its highest in the sky, and is set for MORE
It’s 5:00 where I am, and in Dublin, Ireland, it was 5:00 five hours ago. So I’m thinking that one of the oldest bars in Ireland would probably be rocking right now, with sloppy pints MORE
The end of the weekly rat race is here, and it’s time to gear up for some weekend extracurriculars. This week found me facing up to my fears of interacting with unmasked strangers. Let me MORE
So another Friday is here already, and not only is it a Friday, it’s a holiday Friday. Isn’t it great to remember the relief of relishing a long weekend? After several weeks of hunkering in MORE
It’s been a while since I’ve sat at an actual bar or roundtable for a group cocktail. Probably longer than I’m willing to admit, and definitely longer than a national lockdown has kept most of MORE
It’s indeed 5:00 somewhere, and the News Views Lounge is open, friends. So, speaking of “friends”….. I’ve been thinking today about us. We’ve become regulars here, with a few random guests who stop in for MORE
It not only is 5:00 somewhere, it’s 5:00 where I am, and these protestors in Michigan are driving me to drink some more. While there are healthier ways to manage the stress of living in MORE
Yes, indeed it’s 5:00 somewhere, and by now I’m thinking we would all rather be wherever it is One Happy Hour. If we could meet up anywhere in the world, where would you pull up MORE
It’s Friday, and another week has come and gone in this pandemic purgatory we are trying to survive. For the record, this is Friday April 17, our fifth consecutive happy hour together in this space. MORE
Welcome to cocktail hour with your News Views friends, where any Friday is Good, but today it’s offically “Good Friday!” Let’s celebrate what was actually good about this week, no matter how long it takes MORE