Quelling Our Anxieties and Fears

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

I was in first grade at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that was old enough to understand something bad, very bad, might happen. I have a vivid memory of sitting in my father’s lap and asking if he would have to go to war. This was a man who struggled with searing memories from his World War II service in the Pacific and who was not given to shows of emot...