A scene from Murphy’s Boy, a non-fiction book by Torey Hayden, has been engraved into my mind forever. I read the book 6 years ago and yet, the image remains vivid, the message clear. Kevin, a young boy disturbed by his traumatic past, sits huddled in the corner of a room under a desk. In the same room, a woman trying to alleviate her pain and grief sits, waiting. “Do you know Murphy’s law?” he asks. In a voice unheard by a single soul for many years, he continues, “The law that says that everything that can go wrong…will go wrong.” I imagined her nodding her head ever so slowly, not knowing what to expect. “Well, I am Murphy’s Boy.”