Time Travel: Who would you like to meet, from past or the future?

There is something about time travel that excites the imagination and brings joy to one. Maybe that is why I love fiction so much.

I can live vicariously through the characters in the books. Recently I have been embedded with Cork Corcoran in the William Kent Krueger series of mystery/detective stories. They take place in the Midwest, Minnesota specifically, so it’s old home week.

In the last book I read all of this series, a key character is murdered. Such a shock and disappointment! But since I’m reading them out of order, I can return to an earlier book and she will be alive again. (I know,...