This is the computer desktop image I’ve gazed at lovingly every day for the last year. Okay, Ralph’s not my father, but he was a great one to our two children, and he is my #1 Lifetime Achievement Guy. He has made my enthusiasms his own--doing the heavy lifting in the garden, trekking about the countryside and always trusting my elaborate vacation plans, encouraging my kitchen adventures. Understanding that there are some tasks of which I am constitutionally incapable (working on the roof, fixing anything in the bathroom) or to which I am temperamentally unsuited (cleaning up after meals that require the use of every implement and pan we own, getting places on time), he good-naturedly pulls more than his own weight around the house. We love going to the movies and eating unusual foods together, have the same (very sensible) ideas about politics, social issues, religion, humor, and money matters, and give each other space for enjoying our individual, un-shared interests (his sports and Brother Wease, my photography and reading). Lucky me.