A partial eclipse, when you’re just outside the path of totality, is not 99.9 percent of the experience of a total eclipse. In 2017 parenting and science writer Melinda Wenner Moyer wondered if hauling her family 2,880 miles across the country to witness the eclipse would be a mistake. But let me make the case for the rest of us, the non–eclipse chasers, who are staying home.