Grace under pressure

Summer break(s), the anniversary of a story of heroism and tragedy, and 7 other things worth your time.

Look at that. I’d planned to take a week or so off—and, well, it turned into two weeks.

My wife and daughter and I were in New Hampshire visiting family, hanging out on the lake near the house, and basically enjoying being anywhere other than home.

(I should mention: we had negative coronavirus tests before we left, and we wore masks constantly. Plus, t…