The baby is coming, the baby is coming ...

Actually, she is not.  She is now eight days past due and showing no signs of emerging from the womb.  So the blogging must stop ... not because she needs to enter this world for all of our sakes (the in-laws are in town with nothing to do ... we are all miserable including, most prominently, the pregnant one), but because Howard has told me that my time with you has come to an end.  But never fear, I'll be back ... maybe not next month, maybe not next year, maybe not in the next twenty years ... but I'll be back.  

On a final note, I feel that given the origins of the blog, I owe a short word to the originator.  I never knew Dan.  Never met him once.  So I really have nothing to offer in terms of a personal experience with him.  But being a religious reader of this blog (not so religious as to deny a marriage license, but pretty religious) I can say that if I have the opportunity to touch and impact the lives of even half the people that he touched and impacted, I will consider it a life well lived. 

Thank you all for your wonderful and extraordinarily interesting engagement with my blog posts.  I have taken all the comments in even though I only responded to a few of them.  My ideas are evolving on how to protect the marginalized poor and each of you has helped with that evolution.  For that, I will be sure to reserve a star footnote slot for all of you (is there any greater honor?), even anon at 12:42.  Best wishes for a rewarding, productive, and impactful new academic year.