Unanswered Questions

According to her publisher, author Bernadette Snyder “is a homemaker and mother who is known for her writing of grocery lists, notes for the refrigerator door, garage sale notices and distress signals. She is also an advertising writer/designer, a weekly columnist for a religious newspaper and the author of several books.” A chapter in one of her books is entitled, “The Whys Will Inherit the Earth” (notice the spelling (not W-I-S-E, but W-H-Y-S). In that chapter, Ms. Snyder says, among other things …

Descendants are deflating to the ego and hazardous to you mental health. When my descendant was about six-years-old, he had a million questions. His ‘Why?s didn’t bother me because I either knew the answer or could make up one that was satisfactory to the six-year-old intellect.

Then it happened! In normal, everyday conversations, he started to slip in such questions as, “Why is grass green instead of blue? .. Why can a dog run faster than a man when a…