Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. We were driving back from a quick pre-Christmas vacation in Arizona, where we had failed to perceive any of the healing vibrations supposedly present in Sedona, were properly impressed seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, and didn’t buy the time-share. And hadn’t been paying any attention to any news from anywhere.
Somewhere in southern Utah, we stopped for gas and beef jerky. Stomping through the dirty, slushy snow in the convenience store parking lot, we came across a Salt Lake Tribune vending rack. The front page said, “Judge: Gay marriages legal.