Travel update from New York City

Travel update from New York City So here I am in NYC, doing my book publicity stuff. I had grand plans for posting on the blog last night and today, but my Internet connection is terrible. As in, nonexistent. And it was going to be be the first weekday in months that I havent posted. I started feeling withdrawal. So I called my husband to ask him to search online for a computer I could use in between my 1pm meeting and my 3pm meeting, and here I am, in between meetings, posting from Kinkos: For thirty cents a minute in case you are wondering. But believe me, the Kinkos cost is nothing compared to the babysitting costs on this trip. I took my twenty-one-month-old son with me because last month I traveled without him, and it really felt wrong. Like he was too young for me to be away that long. And the time before that I took him with me but he cried the whole time because I left him with unfamiliar people during the day. So, this time I flew my babysitter from Madison to NYC for a five-day trip. Expensive, yes, but I have a one-hour window today, and I can use the time for posting on the blog instead of feeling guilt about how Im taking care of my kids. Feeling guilt takes time. I like to think that the insane cost of the babysitter frees up my mind to do more interesting things than feel guilt. But maybe thats not totally true. Because look, I spent the time writing about it instead.