Flights of fancy

The tradeoffs between quality of life now and quality of life in the future

Mark Morgenstein
Jul 25, 2019 · 4 min read
Photo Credit: Creative Commons.

I’m flying to Italy for the first two weeks of August.

I’ve only been to Europe once, in 1998, and I didn’t make it that far south on the continent. My children have never been out of the Western Hemisphere, and I keep telling them this is a “once in a lifetime” vacation.

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