The intent of this novel and illustrated reader is to inspire parents. I hope parents and care-givers will share stories of worthiness and enduring ordeals with children who are enduring ordeals of their own, whether health-related or not. The hope is that such sharing of stories will ease the pain of such circumstances and inspire children as they endure their own ordeals to transition to new states of health and happiness...

Elon Musk is quoted as saying, “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Doesn’t work out.” Elon has been joined by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates in expressing his concern where technology is leading us. I would agree with Elon that the technology is something we need to monitor because if it doesn’t work out the consequences will be incalculable. But what we need to realize is that the reason it may work out is not the technology itself, but how...

The war south of the border is a war Americans tend to ignore. The war against drug violence. But what is the nature of this war? President Nixon started it all in June of 1971. He funded efforts intended to take most drugs off the streets of America. The result is hundreds of billions spent and yet illegal drugs remain readily available throughout the country. As a result we also have more people incarcerated than any other nation per capita. So we spend more money to maintain drug offenders in prison than any other nation, but have the same or greater illegal drug availability than...