‘Twas the Night Before Deadline

I write a column called the Green Chain for the Lake County Record-Bee‘s environmental page, the Green Scene. The Record-Bee printed this yesterday.

‘Twas the night before the Record-Bee’s Green Chain deadline. I had writer’s block, and not for the first time.

When up in the sky, riding the clouds like a boat, I spotted a wonder, a flying Chevy Volt.

Driven by Kris Kringle without reindeer with hoof, it nose-dived straight into my roof.

Catching fire in a wink. I said, “I’m going to get water to put it out, right here from [...]