WITH APOLOGIES TO DAVE BARRY:

WITH APOLOGIES TO DAVE BARRY: Blogging has moved to a safe, undisclosed location code named “Foo Fork”.

Seriously though, we had arranged this trip to visit friends and relatives several months ago, and decided, despite the shock headlines and wall-to-wall coverage of the cable networks, to go. I can’t say I noticed any different tone from the passengers on our flight in, or the people in the mid-town Manhattan restaurant where we had dinner last night (or on the subway to my mother-in-law’s appartment this morning).