Well, everybody knows, the Chile quake and subsequent tsunami has been all over the news.
I happened to write a novel about a tsunami, so I’ve been riveted.
By the way, in 2004 when the tsunami struck Aceh and I was on the ground shortly after, the survivors and those in land had little idea what had struck them — they called it the “big ocean flooding.” Now there’s probably not a single person in Indonesia who doesn’t know what a tsunami is — such was the trauma of the event.
And yeah, I’ve been bad about posting to this blog. Because I’m hard at work, scribbling scribbling scribbling. But I’ll be back shortly.
Um, back shortly? Is this a cultural difference? Maybe we mean different things by shortly …