It's Awkward

A word from the proprietor...

Fine…..Everything’s just fine.

I come bearing an apologetic hello. It may be something you have experienced yourself.

It’s the kind of greeting that accompanies a chance meeting with someone who’s been trying to connect with you….for some time. You remind yourself of that fact from time to time, only to drop the needle into the haystack, and start the reminders from scratch. In time, however, what you can’t manage to do is done for you by divine providence, along with a back payment of embarrassment in its wake.

All this is a convoluted way of “mansplaining” the absence of yours truly at Substack. I’ve studiously avoided checking the date of my last previous post; let’s just all agree that it’s been a while (What’s that? February 6? Thank you for that.)

Unfortunately, I’m still suffering the effects of a leg wound which occurred on February 7 (imagine that!). In addition I have on-going headaches after three dental root extractions last Thursday. Headaches are not my normal experience, and, so far, I find no source of inspiration or energy from them to write or even think.

So what you have here in these paragraphs is a hastily-dashed off notice that the end is not yet, accompanied by a lame promise that I shall return.

It’s not exactly the blessed hope, but it’s as close as I can come.