More Random Thoughts

      I hope most of you are having a better weekend—weather-wise—than we are in the Northeast corner of the US.  This is the second Nor'easter to hit in as many days.  At least it gives me a chance to catch up on e-mails, etc, and to get a new blog up before I leave for a quick research trip to France.  (I know, as the old joke goes, a dirty job but someone has to do it.)   I am so grateful to Richard's sister Joanna for marrying the Count of Toulouse, for until now, I'd never gotten any...