Thank you so much!! After four years in a school where being academically-invested meant being uncool, this was a wonderful reminder of the vibrancy and joy academia can bring, especially as I head into college. The note about Anne and Da Vinci was absolutely fascinating — somehow I hadn’t considered the Tudors and the Renaissance thinkers contemporaries. I hope you do get to the French archives to look into that more. So interesting, as were your thoughts on the merits of studying history. Best birthday gift ever.

With baby #3 on the way and everything that goes with that, a pep-talk from Dr. Lipscomb was such a great experience for my wife, both having a few things in common as mothers and as researchers. A big thank-you to two awesome women and here's to hoping both will end up in the same anthology some day!