Mary Forrest has been encouraging me to create a blog. Usually her encouragement takes the following form:
1. I send an email to Mary.
2. Mary replies: “this is brilliant, why don’t you put it in a blog?”
Mind you, I’m a modest person who would never, under any circumstances claim that what I write is brilliant. I’m merely repeating — with no ulterior motive — what Mary says. And Mary, as you can see, is in fact brilliant. You are free to draw your own conclusion by regularly coming back to visit and read this site in the decades and centuries to follow. Assuming, of course that I actually create more than one post.