What happened in a small town high school in 1954 when a twenty-three-year-old Rhodes Scholar showed up as the substitute history teacher? My (Betsy Johnson’s) senior year suddenly became interesting and a potentially dull future turned bright with possibilities. My father, an influential physician, lionized the young man who would become my husband before I was twenty.
Continue reading →78 years after the dawn of the atomic age depicted in the film Oppenheimer, over 13,000 nuclear weapons exist on the planet — 90% of which are possessed by the United States or Russia. If detonated, only a small fraction of these bombs could kill billions of people and effectively end human civilization as we know it. What’s more,
Continue reading →An ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) could not only ruin your whole day, but paying to get them updated and fire-power ready will bankrupt American’s…
Continue reading →one overarching lesson from foreign immersion. People are people wherever you find them. The aphorism observes that there is a line in human nature below which we are all the same. Big or small, smart or dull, kind or mean, hopeful or fearful, such as we are, are about the same in proportion everywhere on the planet.
Continue reading →Why does it seem so few are alarmed at the threat of nuclear war today? Are we in denial or overwhelmed by the enormity of so many doomsday crises at once? Or have we, as I worry, left behind as antiquated that practice humans have engaged in for millennia of gathering in groups to work things out with minds firmly connected to hearts? Eye-to-eye conversations are much more effective than thumbs tapping through electronic devices.
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