Is it tomorrow, or is it still yesterday? In the cartoon, Dennis the Menace is tugging at his dad's covers, and Mr. Mitchell is trying to lift one eyelid. Dennis wants to know, "Is it tomorrow yet? Or is it still yesterday?"

It's a profound question. Something like that -- some 2000-year-old Aramaic version of it anyway -- must have been in the minds of the women on their way to the tomb. In fact, they went to the tomb fully expecting to find yesterday, and instead found tomorrow. They went expecting death and loss, and instead found wonder and hope.

What if their lives had stayed stuck in yesterday? Life lived just waiting for some tomorrow. Life lived stuck in the meanwhile of waiting.

Once I wandered up into the rooms of the biology department, upstairs from my literature classes. Th…