off to a conference

I'm off to a scientific conference to do oral history interviews and get a feel for a story part of whose history I am writing. I'll be back Friday Jan. 31st, knowing more than I ever wanted to know about Red Cockaded Woodpeckers. My 9 year old daughter like the idea that the one-year-old males usually stay with their mother and help take care of the next year's young, while the one-year-old females usually go out and start their own families.