In the fall of the year, Linda, a young woman, was traveling alone up the rutted and rugged highway from Alberta to the Yukon. Linda didn't know you don't travel to Whitehorse alone in a rundown Honda Civic, so she set off where only four-wheel drives normally venture. The first evening she found a room in the mountains near a summit and asked for a 5 A.M. wakeup call so she could get an early sta...

A January interview with Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General reported that loneliness is becoming a public health crisis. Murthy has been raising awareness about the loneliness epidemic and its serious consequences. In his 2023 report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” Murthy highlighted the links between loneliness and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depre...

Christopher Green commenting on an article by Lauren Jackson for the New York Times titled “Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion” provides some good news on the endurance and importance of Faith.Jackson reports that 92 percent of Americans say, “They hold a spiritual belief in a god, human souls or spirits, an afterlife, or something ‘beyond the natural world.’”Though writi...