Personal Note

A health update for those readers who have kindly asked: I've regained enough strength that postings will soon return to normal frequency.

A health update for those readers who have kindly asked:

I'm recovering nicely from the facial paralysis, although I still scare small children in the street. Doctors have now confirmed Lyme disease as the culprit. Lyme disease affects the nervous system, carried by insects that live normally on deer. The disease is a proliferating scourge, and it's time for Americans to strike back: Eat venison.

Happily, Lyme disease also yields to treatment, and I've regained enough strength that postings will soon return to normal frequency - filed over the next weeks peripatetically from Berlin, rural Poland, London, Warsaw, and Krakow.