Bobbie and Wallace
Bobbie and Wallace EdwardsAlmost eight years ago on an early July morning, I got into my Honda CRV and raced like the wind towards Robbins, North Carolina.It's a small town…
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May 7, 2012
Chaplain Turner's War
Chaplain Darren Turner counsels a soldier at a combat outpost in Arab Jabour, March, 2008. Photo by Curtis Compton/AJCFour years ago, I spent time with an Army chaplain in Iraq…
April 30, 2012
Barnabas and Baba
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in the 1960s "Dark Shadows."In the late 1960s, we lived for a while in a rented house on Adams Circle in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every…
April 20, 2012
Tallahassee
The place where you spend your formative years can draw you back with the pull of a magnet to metal. Or it can repel, the desire to divorce yourself from…
April 17, 2012
Wendy
Wendy at Cafe 640Last September, my friend Wendy was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma. Breast cancer.Her mammogram nine months earlier was clear."That's how fast it can happen," she wrote on…
April 7, 2012
Killed in the name of honor
"All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex alone." That's what Pakistan's constitution says. But…
March 22, 2012
Nine years
The United States invaded Iraq nine years ago. On this anniversary, more violence.A string of deadly car bombings rocked Iraq Tuesday. Forty-three people died; 206 others were injured. The dead…
March 20, 2012
The little master makes history
A legend? An icon? In India, he is God.And on Friday, God made India very proud. Even the prime minister said so.The nation of 1 billion-plus erupted in celebration as cricketer…
March 16, 2012
Homs Rules
Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez.On this day in 1971, Hafez Assad became president of Syria. More than 30 years later, the world is witnessing tragedy unfold in Syria at the…
March 12, 2012