As far as I am concerned, there isn’t a place on earth nicer than my mom’s parents’ cottage on Lake Avalon in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula in Michigan. Grammy and Papa bought the little log cabin almost 30 years ago and they, their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have been enjoying it ever since. I hadn’t been there in two years, and a visit was long overdue.

You know, I always wanted to say that I contributed to something big at MIT. I didn’t go to college there (or even apply) and I know no one who did. However, I’m a blogger (more or less) and I can fill out a survey. You can do the same:

From Richard Rutter, one of the three million RSS feeds clogging my aggregator.

If you are wondering why in the heck “The End of an Era” was written almost a week after my last day at CMG, read on…