Balled up newspapers

If you live anywhere in these parts, you are all wet.

It has been raining pretty much nonstop for the better part of a week. And, we’re not talking sprinkles or light showers. We’re talking torrential, relentless rain at times. If April showers bring May flowers, then May downpours bring … I dunno. You finish it.

All I know is this: It’s difficult to keep running sneakers dry. In the winter, I can place my soaked sneakers on our old cast-iron radiators and like magic they are toasty warm and dry in hours. But it’s spring, the heat is off; the radiators are cold, and the sneakers stay wet.

My trick is to stuff balled up newspapers inside the soaked sneakers. That seems to work, and it also puts the otherwise useless newsprint to good use. Oh! Is that a jab at my old profession? You be the judge …