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A Happy Week for the Family

Posted on | May 8, 2025 | No Comments

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Michigan
Apologies for the lack of blog content this week, but my wife and I have been on the road, and won’t return home until Tuesday. On Sunday, our youngest daughter Reagan graduated cum laude from Andrews University, with a double major in history and Spanish. Her senior honors thesis was, “The Significance of the Malvinas Issue in the Politics of President Javier Milei.” She left early Monday morning for a six-week journey around Latin America, three weeks of which are a school trip, a course requirement for her Spanish major, which will be followed by three weeks in Argentina visiting her novio and his family.

We look forward to her novio being able to come here and visit us, but when he applied for a travel visa last year, he was turned down by the U.S. Embassy personnel in Buenos Aires. That was under the Biden administration, of course, and now that Trump is president, I’ve assured my daughter that I’ll take care of this problem by calling in a favor from my old pal Marco Rubio. Gotta remember to write that letter . . .

Because of the travel schedule — we are now about 600 miles west of home — I’ve had to wedge in my day-job work (which I never talk about) into marathon sessions where I do three days’ worth of work in a single day. And today will be another road day, as we drive about 260 miles to Madison, Wisconsin, where our son Jefferson will be graduating from law school Friday. We are obviously quite proud of Jeff because, although he is a third-generation college graduate (my dad was Class of 1950 at Tuscaloosa), he is the first* law-school graduate in the family. The asterisk beside “first” is required because our oldest daughter’s husband is a lawyer and also, incidentally, the son of Argentine immigrants, so there’s some kind of weird pattern involved here. Maybe in a generation or two, all my descendants will be bilingual lawyers.

In the short term, however, there’s that 260-mile drive to Madison — dangerous! After all, in recent months the UW campus has been overrun by pro-Hamas protesters, and for all we know those Jew-hating scumbags have plans to disrupt the graduation ceremony, and I might have to strangle one with my bare hands, which would be unfortunate.

Also, when I checked the route to Madison, the quickest toll-free route was through Chicago, where 110 people have been shot to death so far this year, and another 424 were wounded. Dodging gunfire is one of those road hazards that Chicago residents probably don’t think much about, but it’s my first time. For inspiration, I’ve got the immortal words of Elwood Blues: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.”



 

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