I walked outside at mid-morning, beginning another sultry summer day the same as any other.  The humidity combined with the heat in Iowa July’s has become more unbearable for me as I have grown older, but at 11 years old, it was what helped to define summer; wet and hot, …

With a little reflection, I’m sure that each and every one of us can remember an event or conversation in our lives that left an immense impression upon us, an impression that had little effect on us at the time, but instead became essential to our existence and being.  Our …