Good morning JK!
1. Writer Dan O'Brien gave an inspiring reading from his book Buffalo for the Broken Heart and then was a most genuine, authentic, appreciative, and generous guest at a lunch that mostly students and two of us faculty attended. I was happy to be able to invite two of my students and they enjoyed very much sharing the lunch table with such a fine writer and a good man.
2. It's always gratifying and reassuring to have a student hang around class for a minute after the other students leave express appreciation for the course: both Carol and Dee did so tonight and I was especially grateful because they loved studying Catch-22 which has become one of my favorite novels ever.
3. An old friend of my father's emailed me today to tell me how my father got his nickname "Pert". I never knew it was derived from my Uncle Harry telling him in the shower at the YMCA that he had a "Dirty Pecker" which got changed to "Perty Decker" and was shortened to Pert.
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I wondered about the nickname. Thought it might be Perty something. . .but never in my wildest imagination. . . LOL
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