Graduation Party.

Dear Family and Friends,

I have been basking in the end of my graduate studies for the last month. Plenty of projects await. I've started a new article, and I need to prepare some chapters of my dissertation to show to a publisher. However, I've also stopped to smell the roses a bit this June.
For example, I've been to Milwaukee a couple of times over the last month for a Brewer game and a comedy show. Such fun stuff was in short supply in the run-up to the dissertation defense.Jim and I (with the help of Tom, Char, and others) put on a successful graduation party at Burrows Park on the Northside. Before the party, I joined Laurie, Lisa, and family for a trip to the zoo. Leyla loved the merry-go-round.

Over the next month or so it's back to work for me in a big way before my trip out west with Dad. I missed those of you who couldn't be at the party. Keep in touch.Yours, as always, jkb in Madison