Nothing

he crazy or just frustrated for being the lowest one on the academic totem pole? He was my son’s freshman writing instructor and assigned a topic for a weekly essay. One week, the topic was, “Nothing.” Write about nothing. Sort of like “Who’s on first,” which is not a question in the old Abbot and Costello routine. “Who” is person’s name. Who can be on first, so I said to my son that he might want to open his essay with another item from baseball. Former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean was once at the plate himself and was beaned. They rushed him to the hospital. The next day he said, “They took X-rays of my head and found nothing.” Which is exactly what […]