Hands across the oceans
Continents apart, generations and circumstance between them, hands always tell the stories.
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Hamilton Spectator
Yemen through the looking glass
As the country’s president seems about to topple, a writer remembers times of living dangerously.
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Africa changing — in some places
The revolutionary spirit sweeping North Africa isn’t coming to Black Africa — yet.
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By losing fun, we risk much more
When you get out in the fresh air of the world, you’re awakened to how Western countries have lost it, this ability to run barefoot in the grass.
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The joy of reading is a quest for learning
I think of what Saint Augustine said: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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Lots to learn about life, death, from developing world
We believe in Heaven not through religious instruction but rather because of an instinct that’s hard-wired into us, like a child in the womb who senses some grand world outside his dark closet.
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A motherhood issue: surviving birth
An open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about maternal mortality.
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The JFK-Obama-Messiah factor
In Berlin, both presidents had watershed moments, and both are revered.
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