November 22, 2010
November 2nd—plus three weeks. Some people have wondered if I just fell off the face of the earth without commenting on Caldwell County’s 2010 local elections.
The truth is, Leslie and I had long planned a 10-day drive to Texas and back—to deliver a couple of bookcases in person—then a three-day swing to the Washington, DC, area, to complete a series of visits to all six grandchildren during “birthday season.” The first trip in the series of three actually was to coastal North Carolina in mid-October.