"NO WATER"

If necessity is the mother of invention, then desperation is certainly one of the family. Such was my experience many years ago during a miserable business trip to coal country that turned godawful.

My early years in the communications field were discouraging. Having been trained as an urban policy planner, I was displaced in the mid-1970s and began working in industrial product publicity, writing news releases about innovative uses of woven wire cloth, polyurethane decking and gypsum wallboard.

            One boss at my Cleveland, Ohio…