The SandPaper is off on vacation until early January. It happens every year around the holidays. However, for me, this holiday hiatus is like manna spiced with nirvana and graced with a touch of patchouli incense.
It’s been a bit of a tough year. I’ve gone from a “Gimme Shelter” song theme last January to a “Let It Be” theme heretofore. In fact, may 2014 be Sandy-free; not only free of similar superstorms but free of all the lingering crap she left behind. The witch is a zombie. She just won’t die.
It’s probably utterly inappropriate to bring this up but in the wake of the far-worse-than-Sandy March Storm of ’62,…
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