Would you like to read my essay?
Subject: Would you like to read my essay?
From: John Knefel <johnknefel@gmail.com>
Date: 9/9/10, 12:29
To: John Knefel <johnknefel@gmail.com>

Friends and others,

I don't send out mass e-mails very often, so take that into consideration as you read my plea below.  I wrote an essay about a trip I took to visit a lady in Argentina that got published on a website called Thought Catalog today. 

Here is the link.  Part I is up today.  Part II -- the thrilling conclusion! -- will be up tomorrow.

If you have a minute, stop over and take a look.  Even if you don't read all of it, just clicking on the link helps me out.  And if you enjoy it, of course, please pass it along.  Here's a teaser for you:

My plane was somewhere over Panama when it hit me: I’ve made a horrible mistake.  Or, a better way of saying that is, I realized there was a great big chance I had made a horrible mistake.  I was on a transcontinental flight to visit a woman I had seen in person a total of 8 days.  That was it, my entire interaction with her – 8 days, several dozen e-mails, and 2 hours in an airport hotel.  Was I crazy?  Had I lost it?  The inescapable answer was simple: she – Sara, beautiful, Communist-flag waving Sara – seemed like she was worth the risk.  So like Mark Sandford hiking the Appalachian Trail, I too was headed South, from Brooklyn to Buenos Aires to visit her in her new, temporary home. 

Read the rest here.

My daily blogging about politics can be found at The Faster Times.

If you want to be taken off this list let me know.  Thanks everybody.

John