“I told my buddy, John, about my vasectomy reversal: ‘It was microsurgery. They wore high-powered microscope glasses.’ His smart-ass response: ‘Of course he did...for you!’ But John had no smart-ass response to offer once my third child—my post-vasectomy-reversal child—was born.”

“Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” is the perfect description of how you thought life would be when you were a young man—a life full of commitment, accomplishment, hard work, friendship, loyalty, humility and pride.

Our reason is what puts us at the top of the food chain. We are born into this world weak, naked and vulnerable, but reason gives us a tool to exert our mastery over nature.