In June 2001, I graduated from CUNY Grad School with a PhD in Political Science. That’s Jonah, my dissertation baby. I was at various degrees of pregnancy in Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg, when I interviewed key political actors in the school voucher battles in 1999. By the time I got to Harrisburg, I was waddling. Later, after a very rough C-section, Steve and I took turns watching him and writing our dissertations in 2000. 

That ceremony was particularly long and gruesome. Some old fart in the English Department gave an hour long speech that was so bad that one of the honorary PhDs loudly complained and walked off the stage right in the middle of the speech. Through the whole ceremony, I kept fretting that two-year old Jonah would start crying and upset my folks who were watching him. But all survived. 

That’s just one of the pictures that I scanned last week. I upgraded a professional website and create a school board campaign website, so I needed some fun old pictures.

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