Reaching for the Skies
I was startled by my wife’s phone alarm, not because I’d never heard it before, but because it was mid-afternoon on a Saturday. “Your phone alarm went off,” I said, stating the obvious. Rushing back into the house from the garage, where we were attempting a start on cleaning up and cleaning out winter’s messiness, …
The Intelligence Test
Honored by the Honor Guard
I smiled when I saw them at the graveside service; their presence, though unusual, didn’t surprise me. The honor guard was standing at attention for Frank Spragans, the deceased, whose service I had just officiated. We had concluded the service at the funeral home and were at the graveside. But what was the honor guard …
Cautiously Optimistic
In the Senate Committee hearings last week on reopening the US, Anthony Fauci says vaccine development is one of the big unknowns in the coronavirus response “There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective,” he says, adding that he is still “cautiously optimistic.” What does it mean to be cautiously optimistic? Should …