Dear Friends,

Due to the vicissitudes of life, a number of our group, despite the best of intentions, are not ready for tomorrow's big day. I am in awe of and grateful to those of you who did get this "assignment" done in time for tomorrow, and there are a number of you (great stuff, too, I want to add). But following the advice of the great American philosopher, Diana Ross, I've decided to Stop, in the name of love (it is Valentines' Day, after all), or, rather, delay, for a week. If this inspires some of you to join the fray whereas you thought you couldn't, then all the better.

As someone once said to me, nobody ever died because the server was down. Well, that may not be so anymore, considering how fast our hearts beat when things go wrong on the "net," but certainly nobody will die because we delay the Webzine for a week.

So, before you break my heart ... with your disappointment, let me apologize and assure you that this too shall pass and we will not only post a great first issue, but we will better it for the big #2 issue in March -- which I hope you will give me advice: should it be on the ides or will that prove problematic? We could move it a few days either way.

The theme will be ... correct me if I'm wrong, Barrie Jo, What is an international school which we can all tackle from our own idiosyncratic, but "grand" perspectives.

Thank you for working with me and do use this opportunity to play set up and fool around with your iteachnet.org accounts (and give me advice on that, too).

* Please send me any addresses you can for potential contributors, readers and pr people for your schools/orgs. I want schools to know they can post news and jobs for free now. Yada, yada, yada.

Take care and have a happy Valentines' Day,

David