by Ethan Casey | Jan 5, 2019 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Pakistan, USA
There are many case studies from history worldwide to answer that question. I lived in Bangkok from 1993 to 1998 and traveled extensively around Asia during those years as a working freelance foreign correspondent published in The Globe and Mail, the Boston Globe, the...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Jul 7, 2018 | USA
On June 30 another sad chapter was added to the city of Portland’s long history of public violence when antifa and far-right protestors clashed at a downtown rally that began with a police permit but was soon declared a riot. It was the second time in a month that...
by Jo Glasser | Mar 17, 2018 | USA
My husband and I recently attended the opera Dead Man Walking, based on the bestselling book by Sister Helen Prejean. It’s the story of the relationship between Sister Helen and Joe de Rocher, convicted of brutally killing two young people in rural Mississippi, as he...
by Jo Glasser | Feb 24, 2018 | Jo Glasser, Mental Illness, USA
Abbie and Mike adopted Joshua (not their real names) when he was two months old, a charming African American baby, “a sweetie-pie,” Abbie remembers. They were informed that his birth mother had used cocaine during pregnancy and that his birth father was incarcerated...
by David Grantham | Feb 17, 2018 | Book reviews, David Grantham, USA
I once clung to the belief that if I did not know something about baseball history and culture, my close friend Mike would – and if he did not know it, then it probably did not happen. This belief served as the foundation of my baseball worldview until I...
by Qaisar Shareef | Jan 31, 2018 | Qaisar Shareef, US, USA, When Tribesmen Came Calling
I came to the United States in 1977 as a student and ultimately settled down here, becoming a citizen along the way. So 2017 was a milestone of sorts for me – 40 years of living in the United States. Through these years I learned a lot about the U.S. Constitution as...