Remembering 26/11
A year ago, I was making my way to Mexico City, dreaming of the serene canals of Xochimilco and the burst of a hot tamale in my mouth.By my heart…
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November 26, 2009
White House feasting
President Barack Obama hosts his first state visit today. The guest? Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Makes me proud.Singh, India's first Sikh leader, is an a Cambridge- and Oxford-educated economist…
November 24, 2009
Ode to a water tank
Tallah Tank turns 100 today.What is Tallah Tank, you might ask. It's allegedly the world's largest water tank of its kind, holding a whopping nine million gallons of water to…
November 18, 2009
Invisible people
We take so many things for granted here in the United States, among them a little piece of paper documenting births. But millions of people across the world do not…
November 16, 2009
Remembrance
Amazing Grace and Taps echoed through the vastness of Fort Hood on Tuesday, to remember 13 soldiers gunned down on post last week.Soldiers are supposed to die in gruesome fashion…
November 11, 2009
Slaughter and sensitivity
We don't know enough yet about Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to draw any conclusions about why he would launch a killing spree at Fort Hood.Was it that Hasan, the…
November 6, 2009
About journalists and trauma
"Hey! Welcome back. How was Iraq?"That's something I heard often in the hallways of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when I was freshly returned from war. But how do you answer such…
November 4, 2009