Adult and little kid walking on a dirt trail

Safe Space

There is a lot of cultural chatter these days about what is safe and unsafe. Within our increasingly self-focused culture, “being safe” has somehow been elevated to the level of a basic human right that should be guaranteed by those in governing positions of authority—as if such a notion were even a true possibility. In…

Man looking up at the stars

Be Thou My Vision

As I have grown older I have had to embrace the fact, reluctantly I might add, that my eyesight is not as good as it once was. Even now, as I write this, I am wearing my readers, +2.75. This number has increased over the years as the functional aspect of making out letters on…