Stone: People will come, Ray

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Yogi Berra

I had reached the 681-word mark at 3 p.m. when I was struck by full-blown panic.

This column is complete trash, I realized. No one wants to read about any of it.

But I didn’t have time to do much about it. I was already too deep into the column.

The same thing had happened two weeks ago.

I had given up and decided that my streak of writing columns, whic…