We’ll probably regroup later this afternoon, seeing what we know and where the best avenues for hope and aid exist. The New York Times ran a story today, story number three in the bottom links under World.
The Christian Science Monitor has done what may of us had done in our own minds, and labeled […]
My cell phone lit up with this text message at 10:45 today (11/4/07). The sender was Sue Ellen Ruggles, shown in this photo I took of her holding a mirror up for a young cleft lip patient to see his natural smile for the first time.
The photo was taken in Villahermosa, Mexico in 2000. According […]
There is hope, and there is a nightmare:
A fireman rushes to save the lives of children trapped in a burning building.
An EMT works to rescue children who have been swept away during a flood.
A social worker struggles each night with street kid - drug addicts to get them safe shelter.
And a heart surgeon arrives in […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the books in book store that are full of questions. They are conversation starters. Questions that are funny, sometimes personal, sometimes uncomfortable. Often, the questions are open ended, such as:
“How would you spend your 40th birthday?”
Other times, they force you to make a choice:
“If you had to choose one, would you be […]
Every once in a while, when I return from covering a medical mission like the mission in Venezuela, someone will say to me, “are you […]
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