I will be away for the next several days.  My nephew is getting married in Barbados. At first I wasn’t going to go.  It seemed like an impossible extravagance, which I ultimately decided was a good reason to go.  Plus, it’s family.  That’s what my brother-in-law, the very busy lawyer said when he dropped his schedule to come to my daughter’s hastily arranged wedding this summer.  “It’s family.”  So Pam and I will be there.

Also, this is balm for the part of me that hates seeing the end of summer, of swimming, of t-shirts and early morning tea on the terrace.  I am not a big fan of season change.  I know that is blasphemous to hard core Northeasterners.  I grew up in Minnesota, so I know from season change.  What I want is the politics and culture of the Northeast and the climate of St. Barth.  Oh well.  So this let’s me have a little moment of reprieve.  Bare feet, warm water.  See you next week!