Notes from Comrade Brenda

Who is Len to me? 

Len is my longtime friend and organizing comrade; the person with whom I had too many meals and beverages in New Haven to count (and at least 50% involved him trying to talk to me about poetry, which I blatantly ignored with my laser-like focus on food); one of the funniest people I know, and also one of the kindest; a friend with whom I can pick right up where we left off after not seeing each other for years; and the person who I will forever admire for finishing his dissertation, against great odds and on his own terms, and ripping his PhD from the cold, dead hands of the Yale faculty.  

Happy birthday, Len!  I’m so glad you’re turning 50 (barely) before me.  I’m looking forward to an in-person toast to our advanced age sometime soon.

P.S.  How’s Project Buff going?