So my sister is about to have a baby any day now! The official due date is June 22nd (or so), but Suzanne says that the baby’s about as big as she’s gonna get and so we shouldn’t be too surprised if she comes Real Soon Now[TM]. She’ll be the first grandchild for Mom and Dad and my first niece (or nephew), so it’s very exciting. I’m keeping my cellphone charged and a full tank of gas in the car, ready to zoom up to Washington on short notice.

It’s strange how time can seem to pass so slowly– it seems like I’ve been struggling through graduate school for about 900,000 years– and then one day realize how much has gone in a heartbeat. My memories with my sister when we children are so vivid, they could have been yesterday…. that day we accidentally got locked in the attic and we had to go out the skylight to get out… that time when Bee McCall accidentally hit her with his bike, and I took her back home in tears… playing on Pappy’s boat up in Canada… and now she’s a responsible adult and teacher and wife and mother and everything. It’s remarkable.