"Lexi honey, we have some good but bad news for you," said Maryanne Dion, Alexis's mother as she walked through the door after soccer practice. Alexis set down her green sports bag with the wolf design on the sides and sat down to listen to her mother. "What is it mom?"...

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - - T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men" "I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsureagain. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn...