I went to a workshop in Barbados

Maxine and I went to Ecuador to pick up Galen,

then flew to Vermont to Giora and Katie's wedding,

visited old friends in Canada,

and Giora and Katie on Cape Cod.

An old Polish friend came for a repeated visit

and we drove Galen to Scripps (among other things)

Axel Rob Proskurowski was born on September 1