Steve’s Midlife Crisis

Something that has long amazed me is humans’ ability to convince themselves that things are permanent, unchanging, and capable of lasting forever.  Heres an interesting story about the effects that microbes are having on the 12th-century Hindu temple at Angkor Wat.  We seem to think that somehow we can prevent the inevitable morphing of our […]

I know fear; I want to know it more.
I have looked it in the eye.
I have not shrunk away from it.
Fear follows me.
It often walks beside me
Or lurks behind my back.
Sometimes it wraps itself around me
Like a python trying to squeeze me,
But I do not give in.
Well-meaning friends call that courage.
Hah! I laugh heartily […]