Did the whole country go red or am I seeing things?
•November 11, 2020•
by Jim Baumann
Guest Writer
For those of you who dream of the entire country going red, check out the photo I’ve attached to this column.
I grabbed a red onion from the cupboard Thursday morning for breakfast and, as is usually the case, was unable to transport it to the cutting board without losing a piece of onion skin detritus on the floor.
“What’s this?” my eagle-eyed wife asked a couple of hours later. It was not so much a question as an admonition. I swear, red onions instinctively shed their skin just to annoy housemates.
“Why, that’s the continental United States!” I remarked, looking at it upside down. (I might have added “continental” to my response just now.)
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