Sanity’s Last Stand

Lately, my son is on my mind a lot. He’s my only child, other than my stepdaughter who is of my heart. My son is a natural born scientist. He spent his educational years with his head buried in books and scribbling mathematical equations on a dry erase board. Now, he studies, researches, and teaches about bugs with a career goal of epidemiological entomology (insect diseases transmitted to humans…