“These Things I Pray” in the Vineyard Gazette

“These Things I Pray”
Vineyard Gazette — Commentary

Dear God, please let today be a good day, that is, a day in which I do not do anything too stupid. Let it be a day unlike yesterday, when I thoughtlessly handled a banana with my bare hands without scrubbing the skin first, even though I left the banana outside for two days before I did that. I am too afraid to Google how many days the virus stays alive on banana skins, but it’s too late now anyway, isn’t it?

I think the banana peel also may have come in contact with the stainless steel around the kitchen sink, which I think is where I stood while I… (Read the full piece in the Vineyard Gazette.)