The last couple of updates have focused on the medical situation and, if not grim, have not been exactly joyful.

But I did want to share some news that I think is worth celebrating: despite all that's going on, Maya will be resuming her college education tomorrow, taking a poetry course, "Writing from the Senses," at Pitt. Maya has about a year's worth of courses left to take to graduate with her bachelors degree, and we are taking things one step at a time. This is the first step.

She is nervous, but excited, and I know she will do her best. We are really proud of her, and I know you all wish her the best as she restarts her education.

Well, her formal education. I think we've all learned a lot over these past four years. not easy lessons, and many we would have liked to have skipped, but important ones, all the same.