Travels and Travails

It’s not often that I miss doing a (proper) column, but it does happen from time to time.  This week, I had a lot of traveling to do – to Minnesota State in Mankato (by way of Dallas and Minneapolis), then to St. Louis (by way of Chicago), then back to Chicago, then to Bloomington today.  And though I managed to make all of my appointments, it was not easy because apparently Hermes is not happy with me and has played tricks with my travel almost every day since Saturday.  So I’m writing this just a few hours before post time, and I’m too damned tired and have to get up too early to actually manage anything more than a quick note to let y’all know I’m fine, to share a pretty picture taken in Minneapolis airport too damned early last Tuesday morning, to promise that I’ll tell y’all all about the week on this coming Tuesday, and to ask that y’all reward my efforts and make more such efforts possible by donating to my fundraiser.