Thanks & Kudos to Robert Christian

I want to extend publicly my profound thanks to Robert Christian for filling in for me last week and to express my kudos to him for the quality of his posts. You can continue to follow Robert's writings at the online journal Millennial, which he edits. I am happy to report that I used the time off to largely tame my backyard and that last night, we put down rugs everywhere and gave Ambrose, my St. Bernard who had surgery in May, the run of the house for the first time in four months. Both projects were blessedly uneventful.