The Damn Weather Wreaks Havoc with Our Best Laid Plans

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Weather has become a rather Big Player in our daily lives and definitely in our travel plans.

I expected a very dear guest today, Rebecca Bynum, the founder of The New English Review Press—the very woman who, together with Naama Sandrow and myself, is co-hosting, as well as publishing, Ibn Warraq's new book Churchill's Secular Creed: Empire, Zionism and Islam's Complicity in the Holocaust. She has three of my books in print as well.

God bless her. May angels sing her way to Paradise.

Still, Rebecca's plane from Nashville was cancelled early this morning. Leftover/still ongoing? weather conditions from the recent storms on the East Coast. Hundreds of flights have also been cancelled; thousands more have been delayed. Tomorrow? We'll just have to see. 

Luckily, the launch party is set for tomorrow, 7/21. However, great rain, thunderstorms, and flash flooding are all predicted but not until the afternoon. Will other guests be able to get here? From one of the five boroughs, from crosstown, from other cities in the American South?

Look: Odysseus turned up twenty years later. Penelope could never be sure of the time or the date of his return. And none of us are much like Penelope.