Travel writer, Kate Wheeler, states that “True adventures start with desire, an inclination to enter the unknown. In hopes of finding what?”, she asks, “More of yourself, or of the world? Yes.”, she concludes. Stories take us on an adventure – a journey back through or forward into time. They engage us in our present moments, right where we are, and transport us to another plane or place. Paul Zak, author, and director of the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies at Claremont

I came of age both personally and politically in what has now come to be called “the Viet Nam Era.” It was that time in our nation’s history when events and technological advances came face to face allowing the horrific gravity of war to become more real to us than ever before. Broadcast nightly on the television news; the ravages of battles waged in the past twenty-four hours or so; joined us right in our living rooms. We had been protected from it prior to that and I’m n