It’s Ray Bradbury’s birthday today, so here’s a thing I wrote after he died.

There are people who you may never meet, but still have a profound effect on you. There are people who can reach through time and space to touch you, and change you forever, sometimes only with words. Sometimes especially with words. Ray Bradbury was one of those people for me, and probably for a lot of people. 

Many people publicly expressed their feelings about Bradbury after his death on June 6, including Pres...