Reflections on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day has been a tough holiday for me for a long time. My mother died in January of 2007. But she had been dying for nearly twenty years by that point. Her death was at least a relief from the suffering she’d been through for many years. Yesterday was a particularly difficult Mother’s Day […]
Love and Gravity
A few weeks ago, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, author, science communicator, and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City tweeted, “The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!” Comedian and Canadian Norm Macdonald replied, “Neil, there is a flaw in your little aphorism that seems […]