(Christian Week – February 2013)
KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ There was an old man with a secret.
And there was a police cruiser and fire truck and ambulance, large with red lights in the darkness in front of the man’s house. And my children held my hand and looked up and asked me questions. What could I say?
KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ Once there was a little Ugandan girl who loved school.
The girl, who had been an orphan when she was younger, loved learning new things and making new friends and pretty well everything about it, especially the stories.
Maybe she loved school all the more because of her years as an orphan, which started in a hospital in Mbarara, in western Uganda, where she was left abandoned when she was barely larger than a cat.
There she was given all she ever owned, her name, Hannah.
Once, there was a poor, young girl … Read More »
SANTA FE, N.M. I’m in America’s oldest state capital, in Café Olé, with a sandwich and drink and new hope to never become a moron.
Here for some postgrad studies, I’m also enjoying a recent copy of America’s satirical news tabloid, The Onion.
“Nation’s Morons March on Washington State,” is its banner headline. Thousands of morons, the Onion reports, recently marched in Washington State thinking they were actually in Washington, D.C.
New hope not to become a moron Read More »
Old age is not for wimps. We approach it, even from a distance, with trepidation. It’s like your second childhood.
If the youth could know; if the old could do Read More »
Continents apart, generations and circumstance between them, hands always tell the stories.
Hands across the oceans Read More »
As the country’s president seems about to topple, a writer remembers times of living dangerously.
Yemen through the looking glass Read More »
In Berlin, both presidents had watershed moments, and both are revered.
The JFK-Obama-Messiah factor Read More »
It’s hard to know most days what might go through the mind of any three-year-old, let alone an orphan from Africa.
Orphans want to be loved, wherever they are Read More »
