OBSERVATIONS

"It's probably not going to come as a great surprise to you to learn that, over the last week or so, I've been victimized in another of a seemingly endless series of mind-muddling messes that find me like how a tornado inevitably pounces on a defenseless mobile home park.

Or the way lightning zaps a rod atop a barn.....

To quote Rod Stewart's line in "Every Picture Tells a Story," six little words that have suddenly become the story of my life, "Look how wrong you can be."

I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but once things spin out of your control and you're on your own against the world, I expect the worst and am seldom disappointed."

--Mike Dewey, Sun Journal columnist