Program Note

Earlier this morning, I dropped my wife Sally off at a Portland hospital to have major surgery. I won’t go into the details except to say that even in the best-case scenario, she’s looking at a six to eight-week convalescence. I don’t know how that will affect blogging or my other work—somewhere between “not much” and “substantially.” If you’re emailing or waiting for a post, that’s what’s going on.

When she got the date for this surgery, Sally—an Irish-Catholic New Englander—considered it a positive augury. So for the rest of you, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!