A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
I shall hope to continue some semblance of the weekly blog on Wednesday, February 4. In the meantime, I have an announcement of cardinal importance. Shortly before midnight last, February 1, 2026, at the NYU Langone Hospital on First Avenue in New York City, our eldest granddaughter, Sophia Fleming-Benite gave birth to a strapping boy, rumored to be name Oliver. Sophia and her husband Raymond Wang are reported to be in an ecstatic state, while young Oliver demonstrates the appropriately boisterous combination of wonderment and indignation at having been thrust into the World as We Know It. Unto us a child is born! Please join us in welcoming him. My own entirely passive role in this blessed event in my instant transition (let’s call it a promotion) to great-grand-parental status. I now have a title consonant with the antiquity I feel.
