At least now the cottage cheese will stop being sold out all the time.

Or Iowa. Wherever Cleveland is

This is all pretty specific to geography. That is a question that is admittedly common in the south, but even growing up in a very conservative small town in the north, nobody ever asked that. (There was definitely prejudice against non-Christians, but it was more subtle.)

19 years is quite an achievement! Whenever I am nervous before a talk, I remember the time you gave an after work talk in that Maryland office we worked at. I've no idea if you were nervous, but it gives me courage to press.

I'll miss Mari pictures also--whenever you posted I'd send them to my kid.

It’s the little things that really fog my day. Reading the just fired person saying “I got an award last month for my contributions, How can I be fired for lack of performance?” I can see the person bargaining in real time trying to cope with upending their life.