Late summer in California is fire season. The conditions — land parched from months without precipitation, air sucked dry of
Melanie A. Howard
Melanie A. Howard is associate provost at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and a member of Willow Avenue Mennonite Church in Clovis, Calif.
I stood frozen in place. A moment before, I had been delivering a lecture to a classroom filled with students.
