Anxiety likes numbers. I only recently realized that a lot of my anxiety fixates on meaningless numbers. I like to know how many there are of a particular thing and then attach meanings — usually sinister, sometimes hopeful, always unreasonable — to these numbers.
In 1634, the first English colonists arrived at St. Clement’s Island in Maryland to establish the settlement of St. Mary’s.
JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-yearold Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.
(AP) — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a portion of the state’s near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abortion when pregnancy risks their health, not just in a medical emergency.






