No, I'm not talking about Margaret Atwood, Rohinton Mistry, or Austin Clarke, although they have plenty of reasons to be happy authors.
I'm talking about Arthur Milnes, a guy who was recently a guest on this program talking about his day in Plains, Ga. with Jimmy Carter, and helps run the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University.
Arthur has every reason to be over the moon these days because of this picture.
The man on the right is the Speaker of the House of Commons, Peter Milliken, who happens to be Milnes' MP in Kingston. The man on the left took Ottawa by storm last week with a spectacularly received visit.
And the thing that President Obama is holding in his hands is Arthur Milnes' latest book, which The Speaker put there.
Milnes jokingly wonders whether he'll have to redesign the back cover of his book on President Franklin Roosevelt's speech in Kingston 70 years ago, to reflect the fact that it has now been touched by the current president.
Over the moon? That doesn't begin to describe Milnes' state of mind these days.
Milnes is on a bit of a roll. From his perch at Queen's University, he's managed to befriend several of the most important political figures of our times.
He assisted Brian Mulroney with the 18th prime minister's memoirs. As a result, he developed a relationship with George Bush as the hand-written note (below) from the 41st president reflects.
And his day with the Carters in Plains begat the following hand-written note from the former First Lady.
And here's how the local news in Kingston played it all.
Yes, it's a good day to be Arthur Milnes.
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