The Reminder Is the Easy Part

There is a basic truth in the first seven verses of The Book of Proverbs. The passage begins with three things for us to do: to know, to understand, and to receive. The middle of the passage prescribes that even the wise increase in learning, while those who...

Dangerous, Beautiful Creatures

Raptors captivate me. Growing up, if I did see one, it was cruising what seemed like a mile high, and might as well have been a turkey vulture. I don’t know what started to change in my mid-twenties—that is, whether it was the raptor population which bloomed or my...