No worries! Am just happy--and yes, a shade envious--to see you are on such familiar terms with Rev. Twichell. :-) M. L. Christmas --- On Sun, 7/10/11, Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: The usual apology To: [log in to unmask] Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 11:38 PM Hi, Forum Members, Please accept my apology for falling into the trap--after a hard day of gra= ding term papers and then gardening in the July heat--of mistakenly sending= a personal note to the entire list. I always vowed that I would avoid this error, but I finally made the slip. = May others learn thereby. Regards, Alan Alan Gribben= --- On Sun, 7/10/11, Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Summer doldrums To: [log in to unmask] Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 11:38 PM Hi, Joe, How goes it? I am teaching two new courses this summer, so the class preparations have m= e pretty well tied down. Irene and I did get up to St. Louis to see Walt over the Fourth holiday. H= e has finished his internship and now (gratefully) enters his actual reside= ncy, much to his relief. We found him much older, more mature, quite chang= ed from the eager young med student who left Alabama a year ago. However, = he still loves his calling. Valerie is preparing to undergo the guesswork of finding a residency. She = will interview in a number of states. She, too, is much altered by her wor= k in the hospitals. =20 Yesterday (Saturday) the NY TIMES devoted a section of its op-ed age to fou= r responses to her recent column; all of them were very favorable. Irene is in California visiting her parents and some friends. =20 That's so great that Matt found a position in the state where he most wante= d to teach. Some of your luck evidently rubbed off on him. Try to encoura= ge him to place his wonderful Twain chapter from his dissertation chapter. Best regards, Alan=