Brainstorming

But everyone doesn't have to be a writer or photographer to help them cope.  Almost any pain-numbing distraction might work. I’m going to ask Trixsay to see how many she can list in five minutes after I take a restroom break—

• bake an rum upside-down pie

• read Dr. Suess to toddlers without getting tongue-tied

• sketch an ATV taking a dirt bath under a palm tree

• walk through a ghost town with museums

• play air-violin to Brahms’ Symphony #1 in C-minor

• work a 2000-piece puzzle of a picture of tadpoles

• talk to God like Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof )

• bathe this orphan orangutan--

Borneo-2011                                          by Jeter Skeet