Today I am thankful for: my beloved friends and family, my witty partner, my wise professors and advisors, my dynamic colleagues, my former coworkers (from whom I've learned so much), the historical profession, writers of transporting fictional works, coffee growers and ethical coffee sourcers, database software designers, high definition cable television, and everyone in the past who saw value in what they wrote and produced and saved every scrap of paper and donated them to archives so that we in the present can understand the contours of their lives and learn from the choices they made, the responsibilities they felt, the repercussions they faced...