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Meeks' Week

An Exclusive Weekly Column By Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer David Meeks

Welcome to Meeks' Week. We’re going to have a lot of fun. Consider this color commentary on the play-by-play of life.

Our entire family came down with COVID recently and we’re all fine but I have a few observations.  The first is a serious public service announcement: Don’t put your health at risk, get the vaccines. All three of us were vaccinated, but I was the only one who had recently gotten the booster, as my wife and son were not yet eligible. So what happened? Our son recovered quickly because he is vaccina…
Fall is such a beautiful season, but not because of the crisp air and lovely colors. It’s because I’ve finally got a chance against the mosquitoes. They’ve been mocking me since May, laughing at my efforts to keep them out of the house, feasting on family blood with reckless abandon – life’s been pretty good for the creature most of us regard as the worst part of summer living. Well, at least unti…
This is a story about setting goals and achieving them, in this case my goal to acquire a new television. I’m sharing how I accomplished it in case you are a goal setter too. And I should clarify. It’s not just buying a TV when you’re married, it’s about bringing a new TV into the marriage. You always hear that as a devoted spouse you need to be regularly thinking of ways to keep your marriage int…
Turn on the lights, the (ant) party is over It’s hard to sleep when you know the ants are on the march. I mean, they’re always on the march somewhere – you probably didn’t know that – but it’s when you know they are marching against you that everything changes. Before we go any further, I want it on the record that I didn’t start this skirmish. I have nothing against ants. It’s unlikely anything c…
In a stunning rebuke of the pandemic, I went to a movie. in a movie theater. Twice. And now I am pondering whether I am done going to the movies. It’s not the experience it used to be. One problem for the industry is fewer people seem to have any interest in going. Between the COVID variant du jour and fears of active shooters, weighed against streaming services and take-out at home, the base of p…
OK, so you’ve fallen for the bait. You’ve jumped into this column looking for valuable marital insights from an experienced husband, and by experienced I mean a man on his second marriage. You’ve got two choices: Don’t listen to me because I screwed up my first marriage or listen to me for precisely that reason. But I have to say, I am on a roll. Not only am I remarried, we are headed for our 12 t…
Moving to a plant-based diet is something my wife and I discuss from time to time, usually over chicken dinner. Notice I did not say vegetarian, which means I would not ever eat meat, versus “plant-based,” which is the newer, trendy term that you can use at parties to make yourself sound cool and more like an athlete. It also seems to indicate that such a diet would allow you to base your diet on…
Sooner or later you reach the point in life when you don’t have to get injured to be injured. Things just hurt and you can’t even say when or how it happened. For no good reason, you’re injured. Went to bed the other night feeling fine. Woke up with a sore neck, an injury suffered during the night. Now you might say I “slept on it wrong” and somehow hurt my neck, to which I have a simple question:…
I lived 50-something years on Earth without seeing James McMurtry live in concert, which I needed to remedy because I often turn to him when the moment calls for reflection. McMurtry, 60, is a singer/songwriter, known as much for the brilliance of his writing as his performances. His songs are heartfelt commentaries on life in a changed America. He writes about love and losing it, living in a worl…
You can’t escape your redneck past, and I’ve given up trying. I can only hope to contain it. With a tomato plant. And that’s what precisely what I’m doing. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that our array of 5-gallon, recycled, food-grade white buckets housing tomato and ‘Kentucky Wonder’ green bean plants creates a visual effect that shall we say, might not call to mind the manicured grounds surrou…
Only in professional golf can something that makes the sport take even longer be called an innovation. Even better, this breakthrough involves putting, which already was the slowest part of the game. Apparently not slow enough. PGA Tour pros who don’t rate as the greatest putters will do anything to get the ball in the hole. There have been all sorts of approaches used to read greens. But there’s…
I’ve located the most responsible citizens in Washington DC, and you’re going to recognize this family as a symbol of America. I’ve been observing them for a while now. They are vigilant and hard-working, they care for one another, they work together to achieve their goals and they are responsible stewards of our beautiful planet. It’s hard to believe they live just a few miles from Congress. But…
The word going around is that we all need to start growing the five foods we need to survive and as soon as I go buy the barbecue potato chip seeds I’m ready to get started. Hopefully they’ll be near the omelet seeds and the enchilada seeds. I’ll also need one pasta al vodka sauce with Italian sausage plant and the seed of the great climbing gummy vine. I’m kidding of course. I’d take a chicken po…
It’s cherry blossom season in Washington DC, and I can personally assure you it’s also a great time to see squirrel balls . The cherry blossoms only bloom once each year. And if you think you can see squirrel balls just any old time, read on my friend, which you also may want to do if you wish to avoid seeing squirrel balls. Too late for me. OK, you’ve read this far, which means you are at least s…
For those of us who can remember vividly Tiger Woods’ historic victory at the 1997 Masters, his return to competition at Augusta last week was inspiring and bittersweet. We’re all happy he’s alive. The attention coming in to the tournament was on whether Tiger’s rebuilt right leg would hold up, 14 months after it was mangled in a single-car accident in southern California. Yet if not for safety fe…
I recently tested negative for COVID and apparently it was a real missed opportunity. Let me explain. Each January, I serve as master of ceremonies at the American Football Coaches Association convention, which was held remotely in 2021 but in 2022 returned with a highly successful event in San Antonio. After three days attending a gathering that included thousands of football coaches and few wear…
If you’re reading this and you’re a man, something unusual already has occurred, and I’m not ruling out that a woman had something to do with it. Most habitual readers I know are women. Or it could be that you are a true maverick, a man who actually reads and enjoys it. In 2022, that’s downright renaissance material. Whatever the motivation, thanks for stopping by. I promise to be brief. Because e…
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