The 9-year-old Trip

My family has a tradition: when each child reaches the age of nine, they get to plan a trip to anywhere in the world! The trip is with parents, but no siblings allowed. Nine is a good age – you’re still young enough to want to hang out with parents (no teenage…

Hallo, God?

Outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, an older man dressed in a pristine white robe was preaching to the world. He would dance around the pigeons and pick up a phone – just a red receiver with a long cord, not connected to anything – and shout into it “Hallo?!…