Back from a four-day trip to eastern Canada. Landed in New Brunswick, drove to Nova Scotia and had pit stops in Montreal and Toronto during the journey. On the return, a family with two very young children with extremely large lungs and a predilection for either crying or shouting sat in front of us on the 1-hour flight from Montreal to Toronto. As luck would have it, they also sat in front of us on the 3-hour flight from Toronto to Houston. What are the odds of that? (apparently 100%)
It’s always good to get back to the terre de nos aïeux, if only briefly. Considerably cooler, with sub-freezing temperatures overnight. The scenery bowls me over every time I rediscover it. Rolling mountains. Where’s Slartibartfast when you need him? Off designing bloody fjords and forgot to put rolling mountains in southeast Texas.
Read about 3/4 of Jack Ketchum’s short story collection Peaceable Kingdom during flights. I’d read a couple of the tales before but most were new to me. Not all of them strike the mark, but a lot of them do. I’m impressed by his ability to conjure character, setting and story in so few pages time and time again.
Didn’t get a word written since last week though. Neither did I read any of the printed-out story/novel fragments I brought with me. Sometimes you just have to get away from it all, I guess. Time to get back at it this week, though, before the brain cells go dormant and I forget how to write.
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