Update for 2023: Since this post takes a slightly different form, I wanted to add a note at the beginning, to make it obvious that the text below describes our circumstances in 2016, soon after Jeff’s death.  Dear friends, thanks for visiting us today. We are still struggling with our loss, but surviving. Right now …

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Dear friends, thanks for visiting us today. We are still struggling with our loss, but surviving. Right now I am completely consumed with various tasks — catching up on school work, with three major papers, much reading, and several smaller assignments yet to complete; dealing with the seemingly endless paperwork that goes with my new …

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“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” —George Eliot, from the closing lines of Middlemarch Look …

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