Winds that shred houses to splinters, floods that destroy a city, clouds of crop-choking dust that circulate for years, tremors that topple skyscrapers and split the earth miles deep: these events–and the thousands of lives torn apart in their wake—have been...
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” The ongoing political debate of the two or so years since the most recent presidential election campaign began regularly brings to mind one of the first poems I remember learning as a child: Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. As...
Just last year, in late August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey tore through the Houston metropolitan area. Its winds ripped apart anything in its path not bolted to the ground, then drenched what was left in sheet after solid sheet of pouring rain. Roads overflowed and...
Most news media organizations exist to inform, but more than ever in this internet age, in order to survive, the traditional news media look to sell stories as best they can. There is a long-standing aphorism in reporters’ circles: “if it bleeds, it leads.” No doubt...
In this era of infinite possibility, we are still not free from disaster. The raw force of nature can–and often does–overwhelm the unprepared at any given time. Crops destroyed, resources gone, whole cities disrupted, lives obliterated: these are the...
