Yesterday I spent a couple hours out running errands. The little book-publishing outfit I run received a second outstanding Amazon order for the same book (When Tribesmen Came Calling, Qaisar Shareef’s fine memoir of his career as Pakistan and Ukraine country head for...

I hesitated to dive into the task of writing this diary, because I knew it would be ongoing and that it would demand a lot from me. I decided to do it because I knew it was the right thing for me to do, that I’m built to do it, that this is something I’m ready and...

One side effect of living on the West Coast of North America is that a lot of things happen while you sleep. That’s true for anyone anywhere, but the effect is amplified here by the three-hour time difference between here and the East Coast, and eight and nine hours...