This week, I seem to be suffering from writer’s block, which is really nothing more than a form of intellectual constipation. The words are in there in my head. I can feel them pressing into each other just behind my left eye. I just can’t seem to push them out. Of course, likening writer’s block to an uncomfortable constriction of the colon presumes two things:

Kevin Eckenrode, 25, who recently moved from Scranton to Harrisburg, was allegedly dangling his girlfriend, 23-year-old Rachel M. Kozlusky, from a small window of his high-rise apartment Saturday night.  He lost his grip, causing Ms. Kozlusky to plunge 23 stories.  Harrisburg police said she fell through a plastic skylight in the building’s portico and suffered [...]