Funny story: I went to the beach for a little Thursday-Sunday writing retreat and I got stuck there. I thought I could leave at the time I’d originally planned despite a nor’easter rolling in. Turns out if I wanted to leave at all, I needed to have done it at least a  half-day earlier. Around midday Sunday, New Jersey Transit announced they were suspending train service out of Atlantic City for the duration of the storm.

Whoops. I’d overplayed my hand.

Once I accepted my fate, I was fine. ...