It was the night before Christmas and I was very sad. Civil war had broken out in April. My village was destroyed and my family had been scattered. I was sure that Christmas would not come. In my village in Ghana, Christmas had always been a joyous religious festival. The church started preparing way back in November. Christmas was the time when... >Full Story
From Fear to Eternity
Disbelief. Terror. Helplessness. Anger. Fear. Patriotism. Anxiety. We’ve run the gamut of emotions since September 11, 2001. How can you predict to what depths your spirits will plummet, when you’re faced with a horror you never could have imagined?“ We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” Franklin Roosevelt once declared. Oh, but not... >more
Failure to Render Aid
In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish... >more
Connecting Through Technology
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