the journal founded by Bernie Ackerman and now under his edi -torship, I must admit I accepted his invitation with an ele-ment of uneasiness. Perhaps because I recall that Bernie never really embraced dermoscopy and not simply because of the linguistic misnomer [1]. As much as he was fascinated by the clinicopathologic correlation of inflammatory skin diseases, and to a lesser extent also of melanocytic proliferations, he seemed to ignore the equally fascinating universe of dermo-scopic-pathologic correlation. In any case, all of my work in this arena in the last two decades was, and is, heavily influ-enced by Bernie’s dogma of the significance of clinicopatho-logic correlation. Therefore, I see this editorial is an excel-lent opportunity to pay respect to Bernie as a mentor and a teacher and to cite the book of Bernie’s that I have enjoyed reading most, namely,