I wrote a column about the importance of the telephone as a business tool a while back. Satisfied that I had gotten my point across, I walked away from the keyboard hoping never to address the issue again.

Whatever the reason, many of us have put in time after school, doing blackboard duty. Writing three hundred Z’s on a blackboard gives you plenty of time to think about the power of letters.

As important as carbon is to us and our planet, I know one place where I would rather not find it. That’s in the form of hard-to-remove deposits ont eh back side of intake valves.