Eclipse Reflections

At 3 p.m. on April 8, Paula, her brother Mark, and I set up chairs in the empty parking lot of our office at 195 N. Shortridge Rd. Through special glasses, we watched as the moon slowly nibbled away at the sun, inching the way to darkness. The air grew cooler, and turned that odd color it does when a big storm is moving in as the last sliver of sun dangled in the sky. Then it blipped out, and there, in the middle of the afternoon, it was dark as night. Planets and stars appeared in the sky, and