In our family celebrating Christmas begins on Christmas Eve, which makes today the Eve before Christmas Eve.My last day of work (the day job) ended yesterday in a flurry of minutia cleaning off my desk, and leaving myself to-do notes about what tasks need to be...

On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, I sat watching the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan. Like many, I saw this for the first time in the theater, stunned, and sobbing. Watching the men try to emerge from the Higgins boats on the beach....the door...