My Father In Law Said Nobody Invited Me Until Someone Pulled Into The Driveway

had been trained since childhood to trust information over emotion, evidence over instinct, data over drama. I did not know, sitting at that kitchen table with the grease pencil and the topo sheet, that the lesson would one day determine whether thirty people lived or died in a city on fire in Iraq. Neither did my father. But he taught it to me anyway,continue reading …