Much of this blog was written in mid-September of 2020.  For reasons that should become clear below, I never finished or published the post.  At the time of the writing, I had recently finished reading Erik Larson’s book The Splendid and the Vile and I couldn’t remember enjoying a book more.   The story focuses on Winston Churchill and his family during the Blitz.  While Churchill … Continue reading The Buoyancy of Hope