David Soubly

(This is the third in a series of observations on our pandemic times.)

I am a Shaggy Man. In that, I am not alone.

A whole lot of guys have become Shaggy Men over the last few months, thanks to the COVID lockdowns. In our state, barbershops and beauty salons were one of the last places to reopen. I suspect that’s the case across the country.

We’ve seen rebellions in this Shaggy Man era. In Michigan, my home state, we had a 77-year-old barber who refused to close his barber shop until the...

Maybe I should just die in my sleep and not worry about things. That would be simpler.

I have sleep apnea, which means that I, like many other people, are skilled at two things:

1. Snoring so loudly that I register on the Richter scale, the next state over
2. Trying hundreds of times each night to reach the next life by depriving myself of oxygen in this one

I’ve had this condition for too many years. Actually, if you have a partner in your life, a few days or a week, tops, is too many...