My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

For scientists, reality is not optional.