Recent reflections

Made another round trip to Minneapolis this week...fortunately uneventful! I continue to make encouraging progress on dissertation related stuff and am getting good support from my advisor and committee members. My sense of taste is starting to recover and I get brief stretches where everything feels back to normal (whatever that is). It is even getting to the point that occasionally the whole surreal October-February experience seems like it was just a bad dream. We are really looking forward to this coming weekend...Jack, Cindy and crew are again taking over the Hostel at Itasca and we are heading down there Saturday for what is always a wonderful evening of music, food, and community of kindred spirits. Sunday's celebration should be more of the same...hope to see many of you there.../dps