Best-Laid Plans

Hi, all!

I'm sending apologies for my lack of presence these past few weeks.

I spent most of October traveling in England. I had the best of intentions to maintain my writing practice and compose my weekly newletter, to use that as my one constant, my one controllable, in a new environment.

I don't know what it is with me and travel, though. My best-laid plans and good intentions never seem to play out the way I imagine.

As poet Robert Burns wrote in "To a Mouse" in 1785,

"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry."