Brief Editorial...

Well, serves me right for not checking this often enough to notice the most recent post...but finally doing so has prompted this brief appendix that certainly must accompany the previous message. Yes, I had to figure out how to hack into our own blog to do this, but here goes:

Upon receiving our diploma from The Ohio State University, I was quietly alarmed at the apparent typographical error that riddled the text. To the common person, only one name appears on the documented proof and transcripts associated with our completion of coursework at Fisher. I, however, will always see two names and want everyone to know that the name Brandis Leigh Smith deserves to be printed just as much, if not more, than does David Nathaniel Smith in connection with this accomplishment. True, I was the one sitting in the exam room for Advanced Strategic Analysis, but she was the one acing subjects that have real significance - Raising 3 Miraculously Wonderful Children - for example.

My infinitely tolerant, compassionate, and patient wife has completed (by modest estimation) 74, 460 priceless and credit-less hours over the past 8 1/2 years compared with my paltry 220 or so credit hours that have warranted the recognition marked this past June. She both figuratively and literally worked through this experience with me, as evidenced of her willingness to grade papers with me at all hours of the night (yep, she didn't sleep all that much either).

To my wife, who never gets any time off - to say nothing of all the quarter breaks I had over the past few years - I extend my congratulations and eternal love. I absolutely could never have made it through any of this without your love, support, and tireless, selfless service for our family. You're the best, and that drives me to be a better person everyday.

-DNS