The Sound Of Silence

Published: July 27, 2008, noon

b'"Batching it" sucks. But if you do it right, you can make do with only one fork and one cup. Tv dinners come with their own plastic throw away plate, and you can spread peanut butter and jelly with a fork. My Lady Wonder Wench will be in the hospital for a while. But the point is that she will be coming home eventually. Meantime, the words of Big Louie, his own bad self come to mind: " Things won\'t be the way you remember them again, although that\'s what you might hope. Things are just what they are for a while, so be careful you don\'t slip on the soap." But the silence here since she\'s gone is hard to take.'