View from the comfy chair

Isat down to relax in my comfy chair and was just drifting off to sleep when I heard the telephone begin to ring in the background.

Dreaming can be a form of time travel. I woke up, and the year was 1966. I was a freshman at Kimball High School, and I had a habit of taking a nap when I came home from school, a five mile walk one-way.

For younger readers, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graha…