My wife’s maternity leave ends today. She’s been home for the last few weeks, which has been nice, though for most of it she’s been busy working on her dissertation. But her thesis defense is next week, and after that all the work for the PhD will be done… just in time for her to start teaching again. I foresee that we’ll be spending a lot more time up on campus as a family from now on.

In some ways, this actually works out better for my writing, since I tend to get a lot done in the BYU Libra...