One of our imperatives as humans is to communicate-with others, with animals, and eventually with aliens. Here, in Forkpoints, you will find stories of unlikely people-scientists and street people, athletes and musicians, the very old and the arrogant teen-meeting and connecting with others not like them at all. Another major interest of Finch's is what Robert Frost called "the road not taken," that haunting sense we all have from time to...