

Lift-Off
I was grumpy at the beginning of this week, for reasons too boring and frivolous to go into. But my mood has lifted! So I can write to you at last without needlessly and unexpectedly bringing you down, like that Dan Fogelberg song about meeting an old lover in the grocery store, toasting lost innocence, and not knowing how to reach beyond the emptiness. We’re not going in that direction! We’re thinking happy thoughts. I have this nice news, for example: Last Friday I finished