Why It Matters

And so the Staffords landed on a foreign planet sometime in the middle of 1974. The aliens spoke a strange variation of English wherein “mom” was replaced with “ma” and the -ar in any word was spoken like a less gravelly pirate: “Ma, how far can we go in the car?” No mountains loomed on…

  When the 1960s came to a close, Jim Stafford was a 25 year-old father of three paying the mortgage on a small V.A. repo in a lower middle class Denver neighborhood. The previous owners converted the garage into a master bedroom, so Jim’s mostly bank-owned station wagon sat in the driveway. This was the…