Here's to you, Blacksheep -- 3rd platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment. Thinking of that hot day in April, 2006, when you completed your last patrol. I…
My friend Val gave the coolest birthday gift: a vanity plate for my Mini Cooper that says an abbreviated form of "EVILREPORTERCHICK." So on Sunday, I went about trying…
I had a dream last night. It was the same one I've had since August 20, when I learned of Jim Foley's death. A man in black holds a small…
My journalism brings me face to face with all sorts of interesting people. Over the years I have met extraordinary men and women and ordinary ones who have extraordinary tales…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSVxNafit8 I met Maya Angelou in 1983. I worked for the Center for Participant Education at Florida State University and we had invited Angelou to speak on campus. I went with…
My story on a home for the dying in Varanasi, India, came out on CNN.com today. I spent a week reporting in the fabled holy city and was fascinated by its…
We lost another amazing journalist today. Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an acclaimed photographer for the Associated Press, died instantly after an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car…
I've been immersed in writing about death after spending a week in Varanasi at a home where ailing, elderly Hindus go to end their lives. They want to die there because…
When I first started out in my career as a reporter, most of the journalists I admired were from America or Europe. There were very few English-language journalists in my…
