My Dear Reader,

Roughly 2000 years ago, the poet Juvenal wrote, “It is
difficult not to write satire.”  He
wasn’t the pioneer of that genre, for it existed a relatively long time before
he wrote that oft-quoted dictum.  But a
truer line, I think, was never written that could be applied to the age in which
that poet lived or in which we ourselves live.

But I won’t be writing satire or anything for a little while.
Why? Not because it is difficult or not difficult or difficult not to write
satire but because I am writing something else and shall be while I am
traveling. If it is published, you shall be the first to know. 

Greetings from Lviv, Barcelona, Rome and… we shall see.

Thanks for your patience,

H. R. Jakes