News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #184…

Spring is gone. One of many things I loved about Colombia when I lived there was that the climate was just a function of altitude. It could get down to freezing at 8000 feet (Bogotá, the capital—not Bogota, NJ), sweltering heat on the coast (e.g. Cartegena—Colombia has both an Atlantic and Pacific shore), and eternal springtime in coffee country (e.g. Medellín) Here in the Northeast, we have four weeks of nice weather if we’re lucky—two in spring and two in fall. We can take it, though; we’re st...