Article January 28, 2008 Issue

NO SAFER PLACE

BY KEVIN CROSS

"I know that where I am, God is. So no place can be safer than where I go."

That was a saying that my great-grandmother taught my mom when she was a child growing up. And that saying is something remember remember each time I travel with my family.

I was seven years old when I took my first trip out of the country to watch my sister graduate from high school in Puerto Rico. As our family was pulling out of the driveway in our car to catch a plane flight, my mother talked with me about the saying, and it brought me comfort.