My Mt. Everest

Contemplating my place in the universe — while putting up my Christmas lights

High school classmate Jon Krakauer was Indiana Jones and I was Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Note: A while back, my neighbor, a retired emergency room doctor, told me one of the most common injuries he saw was “old guys falling off ladders.” This year, for the first time in nearly 50 years, I paid someone…