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We Need a Little Light
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in...
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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From Gender Violence to Gender Democracy: What Will It Take?
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Towering Humanity: Turk Pipkin’s Building Hope
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDisabuse any inkling that Building Hope is cinematic broccoli. It’s a majestic and transformative entertainment and this documentary packs more emotional connectedness, stark naked compassion, unyielding gumption, and inspirational heft than a GooGooplex full of Hollywood fiction.
Tahrir Square and Me
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 5 CommentsEgypt and I go way back — forty-one years, to be exact. That is a bare blink of an eye for a country that is over 5000 years old, but...
Adventures of a Young Man: That Time in Cuba
Posted on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Our delegation was supposed to be about culture and history but nobody ever went to Cuba without a political...
The Right To Education
Posted on August 24, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s been just under a year since I wrote a story for DogCanyon on The Right to Clean Water bemoaning the massive number of kids in the world whose lives...
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Posted on June 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk...
Collision Courses
Posted on June 9, 2010 | No CommentsLast week I was hit by a motorcycle and by a new language. I keep waiting to see if one of those will leave a mark. The bike accident wasn’t...
Report from Haiti
Posted on May 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsTraveling and working in the developing world, I’ve discovered that I’m a fairly positive person. In the cholera-ridden slums of Nairobi and the heroin-shooting galleries of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I’ve managed...