Learning to write in the tropics

 My summer unofficially began with a summer school in the German city of Regensburg, it was one of the study weeks organized by the Dominican brothers, in this case one I know from Notre Dame but who is now living in Rome and working at the Angelicum. For last minute reasons, instead of staying in Pamplona for two more weeks after returning from Regensburg I returned only to pack up my summer things and close up my flat until September, leaving for San Sebastian and a week of being aunt to an adorable five year old nephew, whose parents had to go abroad for several days. I was in theory meant to be preparing a paper I was going to give at a conference in Vienna three weeks later but living and caring for a five year old is good for living the virtues but not really for writing about Aquinas' take on the virtues. The paper had to wait, and it was in the end, partially because of a lost suitcase partially my own poor time management, in the days directly leading up to the conference....