Hi. It's been awhile. A lot has happened since I've posted in these pages with any regularity. Unfortunately, too much has not. But I shan't dwell on the chilling event of almost a fortnight back that cast a pall over everything my mind processed, not in this post, at least.
In all honesty, I cannot lay much blame for my absence in these pages on my post-election depressive lethargy. Oh, I was kicked in the gut, no doubt. But I had less than maybe 30 hours to really deal with it (yet). A literary project had to consume me for most of a week if quality of work and the reality of deadlines were to find some acceptable common ground. And then there is my teaching here at the university, which happens with punctual regularity regardless of what I'm writing.
Frankly, I was jammed and my discretionary time was down to about four or five hours out of every twenty-four: To blog or sleep those four hours or so was the question, and pretty much has been for too much of the fall. Mostly I chose sleep. And sanity, of sorts. My own brand of it anyway.
It appears that I might be coming up for air for a spell here, and I hope to post more that just a little. We shall see.