My daughter, senior class valedictorian, is graduating from her high school this Sunday, so The Snug will be closed until the festivities are over. I leave you with this observation by Elizabeth Taylor-NoNotThatOneTheWriter–the eminent English novelist, that is, who died too young (63) in 1975. "Writers are ruined people," she said. "As a person, you’re done for. Everywhere you go, all you see and do, you are working up into something unreal, something to go on to paper..."

Too true. Meanwhile, let's go have a drink and toast the commencement of adulthood.