30SecondRead.com is a pandemic baby. It blinked alive in June 2020, a dark month in the bleakest year of the Covid-19 era.
I was locked down – and bored. Building the website tested my competence. Writing columns, three to four a week, provided distraction from fear.
It’s a goofy premise, a website where every column, essay or story is only (and exactly) 180 words short. I didn’t care. It’s fun to craft each to the same length.
I am nerd. Hear me write.
And short is good. Right? 30-Second Read essays may be serious or silly, but they’re always only a teensy squirt of serious or silly. Always.
Early on, many essays were about the coronavirus. We slung them under a “Coronavirus” label in the navigation bar at the top of each page.
We’ve published 75 virus columns. We’ll probably publish more, but the virus no longer crowds out other topics.
So, yesterday, I retired the “Coronavirus” label. The virus essays remain, accessible through search or under other navigation labels such as “Life.”
And there’s a new label: “Food.”
Read. Enjoy.
Yay! for milestones passed. Notice, I did not say “kidney stones,” but yay! for those passed, too. Thanks for the Harry Chapin song. Now I have a pleasant earworm for the day.
Harry Chapin is the best.