Farvel!

This will probably be my last post from Denmark this month and since I won't have computer access in Trinidad, it very well might be all you hear from me until I get back!
The countdown has begun--we're off in a couple of days and I need to get packing. I'm doing something very un-Trinidadian on this trip: I'm packing light! As my grandmother will undoubtedly say, "She come here with two hand swinging!" Yes readers, wish me luck, as far as I know, no other Trinidadian have ever attempted this feat (well, perhaps that is why I am the Yankee Girl!)
The reason for traveling light is easy: I need to trek across London with my son and I figure the less we have to carry, the more we can enjoy our trip. Also, I figure that as long as I take my grandmother a gift, I won't be in doghouse.
Gift giving is really deep in my culture where the perception is that if you are coming from abroad you should bring presents for family members and friends "home".
Yesterday I began 15 more copies of The Organist's Daughter. Did you know that it takes me a little over an hour to make each one? I always figured I would make about a hundred, and now that I'm a little over 100 copies I can officially report that I will make no more copies of that title. So, if you are one of the lucky few who have that hand-made labor of love in your hands, congratulations. If you don't own a copy you can try to get one at Atheneum (in Copenhagen) or McNally Robinson (Soho, NYC). I'll also have the last 20 copies with me in Amsterdam to sell, so if you're in the neighborhood, come by the Kwaku Festival! Other than that what can I say? You slept on it!
Bandit Queen Press's next project, in case you're still asleep, is Bureau 39, which I'll continue upon my return.
Enjoy the next few weeks. Make every breath count. Revel in the interconnectedness.
I'm out,
the lab
P.S. That's a picture of me being teased by my siblings for being, yup, you guessed it! Yankee Girl!