Dear Friends... It is that time of year again to share with you Mrs. Dartoid’s and my adventures in this journey we call life. 2007 has been another year of magic and wonder... Lori, who we adopted from Argentina in January, is almost three and quite a talker. She continues to amaze the professors at the university with her aptitude for foreign languages. It was fun for her to serve as official translator for Condoleezza Rice during her recent visit to Iraq. She plans to spend this holiday transcribing War and Peace into Arabic and Cantonese.