Today's warm welcome goes out to Maya A*****in

Today's warm welcome goes out to Maya A*****in from Jordan. One of the benefits of having a dog is that you meet new interesting people every day. But every so often one of those people shares a view of the world as you do and comes at that view from the same direction as you.  If you think about it long enough, you can almost calculate the probability of meeting some people, and then characterize that person as, say, a "one in a million" kind of a person when the meeting occurs.  I would probably have to add a few more zeros to Maya's characterization, as the odds of my meeting a charming, Russian-speaking Fordham graduate who majored in economics, and is a dog lover who enjoys camping and New York, passions of my own, in a chance occurrence are far greater than one on a million.