Thank you for the alert, Michele. Hi Shawn, and thank you for the kind words, not to mention your longstanding support. Hope you and Rebecca are doing well. And it's good to see you here, Stan. Is your site still growing? Haven't been there lately ... shame on me.
I feel like I should explain my absence, at least to some extent. I had some health issues a few years back, and though those have been resolved, my partner of some years had a huge health scare in recent months. Fortunately, the outcome looks at least (guardedly) promising for her. I think about BookThink often and how much I'd like to restart things. Michele, for one, has recently mentioned some interest in writing for BT again. Of all the contributors we had over the years she had an unusual combination of qualities that made her especially invaluable. She always had great ideas for what to write about , had significant knowledge about the trade, researched the crap out of things she wrote about - and best of all, she could actually write, you know, put sentences together that made sense and often required no editing. It made my job so easy. Michele, I do expect you to identify the best Gettysburg restaurant when we come, and perhaps you might have time to give us a tour of the battlefield. I was up there a few years ago to track down my great great grandfather's statue but unfortunately didn't have time to do much else.
For anybody who is reading this, I want to thank you for your contributions to this forum. I'm sure all of us have learned much from the experience, especially in the early days.
Meanwhile, I hope to be back in the BookThink saddle soon. I love you guys.
Craig
