A vacation picture of this blogger, his wife and his son (August 2009)

In a rare departure from my Presbyterian style of just the facts or only the ideas, here is a photograph. That’s my wonderful wife, Anne, next to me, lest you be unsure who is who. Just for the record, my little guy, Will, age 6, is not actually brain-dead, but he hasn’t learned to adopt the smile-for-the-picture-and-look-normal” pose that adults generally aspire to.