Interlude

A friend just sent me this, from the New York Times. A photographer is compiling a series of portraits of people who share presidential names. It's wonderful!

Another friend wrote to say that he had once tried memorizing all the presidents by investing in a placemat and mug. It did not work. In our house growing up, we had placemats with the flags of the world, a world map, a US map, and the American Sign Language alphabet. I can spell my name in American Sign Language, but this skill has not served me well.