excuses, excuses, excuses...

so I was in New Orleans, and then frantically trying to prepare for Thanksgiving, and then caught this awful cold, and now I'm trying to get back on the straight and narrow.

but it's funny how things work. Here I was exactly where Katrina had hit, seeing the shadow of the destruction and devastation that the hurricane had brought, only a year after having been in Las Mesitas where Hurricane Stan and the government's complicity in not protecting its vulnerable citizens so clearly echoed our own!