I know I am very fortunate in my life. Sometimes, however, good things cause problems, too. Like Monk says, "Its a blessing and a curse.". Blessing: I get to be in a doctoral program; Curse: I have no time for anything I like to do. Blessing: I come from a loving, large family; Curse: It hurts so much when you lose one of them.
This picture is of two of my little brothers and my younger cousin (the one in the middle with the bow) on the occasion of his First Communion, about 1962. 2/3rds of this little group are dead; my brother on the right (hit by a drunk driver, 2003) & my cousin (sudden heart attack, last week).Thus, due to the pressure of school, and the potential morbid tone of my posts, a temporary closure seems to make most sense. See you next year.
