Guest columns

The third Sunday in June is traditionally observed in the United States as something we refer to as “Father’s Day.”

One silver lining for me during this weird coronavirus shutdown has been the opportunity to return to some writing projects I had left on the back burner.

Creating a new vaccine and bringing it to market typically requires more than a decade of research and clinical testing.

Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that the Gospel text he strongly identified with is the account of the disciples, after the death of Jesus, locking themselves into an upper room in fear and then experiencing Jesus coming through the locked doors to bestow peace on them.

I have lived in Santa Barbara, California, for the past four years. In that brief time, my neighbors and I have experienced a number of real tragedies.

In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, Love in the Time of Cholera. It tells a colorful story of how life can still be generative, despite an epidemic.