Have you ever read something in the newspaper that makes you say, “Wait — say what?” You’ve just come across something that makes no sense. Then you go back and read it again — and sometimes again and again. For instance … One day last week, my local newspaper, the Las Vegas Review Journal, had a picture with the caption: “the defendant enters the courtroom Friday before pleading guilty to murdering the victim at the Regional Justice Center” (which is the high-flautin’ name for the courthouse). Say What? He murdered her at courthouse? Wasn’t anyone around to stop him? Oh, wait on a subsequent reading I realized they meant that he pled guilty at the courthouse to the murder. Oh, okay. I wonder if anyone actually proof-reads these things. Of course, a newspaper has a quick turn-around so it’s not like a book or manuscript where someone can go through and take a lot of time… Read More »
Headlights at 3 o’clock
No, I don’t mean headlights over my right shoulder, I mean headlights in my driveway at 3 a.m. You know those nights you can’t sleep? This was one of them. I’d awakened at 2:00 and just couldn’t go back to sleep. An hour of tossing and turning and I finally got up to fix my sure-fire go-back-to-sleep snack of warm Ovaltine and buttered toast. Of course, the fact that I was up and moving around the kitchen woke the cats who were begging for a snack, too. “Oh, all right,” I told them. “I guess it’s only fair. I’m eating, so I guess I should give you something, too.” I meted out the food onto the various dishes and when I stood up, I saw a car in my driveway. At three in the morning. With its headlights on. I caught my breath as my mind flipped through who could… Read More »
