WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO KVELL

I pause briefly in my telling of the story of USSAS to kvell. My younger son, Tobias, will be the Jesse Climenko Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School this Fall. Tobias is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and during the recent presidential campaign, was Chair of the Advisory Committee on LGBT Affairs to the Obama Campaign.

KVELLING, PART TWO

No sooner did I offer an adequate definition of kvelling than I was offered an opportunity to indulge. My brilliant younger son, Tobias [not to be confused with my brilliant older son, Patrick], has just posted an essay on The Huffington Post. For reasons that are beyond my poor brain, I cannot cut and paste the link into this blog, but if you go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com you will find it.

Tobias, as I am sure I have mentioned, was Chair of the National Committee for LGBT Issues for the Obama campaign, as well as one of the leading gay legal rights experts in the country. He is Professor of Law at UPenn [see the entry under his name -- Tobias Barringtin Wolff -- in Wikipedia for more detail].

Now, if only it came in the form of an earring...