This story was originally published in print on Oct. 4, 2018. Happiness cannot be found by looking for it. You must look for something else, anything else. Just as Alice in her Adventure in Wonderland discovered, the quicker she ran toward the Red Queen, the more distant she became. It was not until...

“The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy, is a post-apocalyptic novel about a father and his son as they follow the road to the coast. The United States, and the world they know, is gone. The sun is blotted out, the trees are dead, the animals hunted to extinction and the water filled with ash. There are no...