On the eve of the final mission of NASA’s – and the nation’s – 30-year-long space shuttle program, I present to you a video love letter – my newest piece for Time Magazine’s website, wherein Tara and I journey to Florida to witness our first launch, Discovery’s last.
Where in the Bible does it say, when Jesus returns, he will appear as a silver Rorschach blot on a chest X-ray in a small town in Florida? A few thoughts… Reynaldo Farinas went to the hospital after experiencing chest pains. Okay, no surprise there. You’d have chest pains, too, if Jesus were unexpectedly resurrected …
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my migration to Northern California – which is counter to the eastward migratory pattern characteristic of my kind – a migration which, over time, deposits us in the Sunshine State like calcium carbonate on a stalagmite …