I suppose the title of this post has different meanings to different people.  From recent comments, it is used to describe the “post-truth” era that many seem to think we are in.  To many, the hardest years are the ones that they are currently living in.  Being a history guy I have a longer view than that.  But this is not at all what this post is about. :) These are the first words from a quote from Helen Hays shown below I couldn’t agree more. At the tender age of ten, I had just taken up a Jack London … Continue reading The Hardest Years…