I have some very bad news. I was laid off at the end of January but always thought I would find new work. That has not happened. I am now face-to-face with the reality that if I do not spend every single waking minute in the pursuit of a new job we will wind up living on the street. I wish that were a poetic exageration. It is not.

As much concern as I have for people I don’t know, far and away my most important commitment is to my wife and our family. From now until after I am re-employed, I cannot spend a single second on anything but my search for employment. I should have realized this before but “thinking positively” can sometimes function as simple delusion. Today things happened that brought it all home.

I apologize for starting something I can’t finish, and making commitments I can’t honor, but there is nothing for it. My wife is more important than anything else in the world to me.

I hope that this hiatus on my part is temporary. Victor and James may elect to continue the coverage that this organization has provided now for four-and-a-half years. But that is solely up to them.