I live most of my life caught in the tension between being an open-minded optimistic seeker and an eye-rolling sideways-looking skeptic. Sometimes I whole-heartedly embrace new ideas and adventures and at other times I am cynical and resistant to things that seem manipulative or coercive in any way. There are ups and downs to this. I don't fall victim to online scams because I just assume that anything I don't easily recognize is a scam and I ignore it. And yet there is a goo

Why? Why am I always asking why? Why? Three sentences. Eight words written in my late teens. My entire contribution to the literary world...