Last Monday is a column that appears the last Monday of the month.
Recently I realized that I didn’t know where the ‘z’ key was on my computer’s keyboard. My memory’s been packing its things before leaving altogether, but I thought I could still type.
Then, when in reference to prison cops I tried to type lazy, I couldn’t. I couldn’t remember where the ‘z‘ key was. I hadn’t had to look for a letter on a keyboard since nineteen sixty, and now I had to figure out how to type a z. I did think my left hand should be involved. I didn’t know which finger to use or what to do with it, so I simply took my hands away and looked for z key. That worked.
So far, so good.
A.P. Porter is a well-known Chico writer who worked for many years as a columnist at the Chico News & Review.