June 12, 2017
My host touched the ‘down’ button in the elevator of a high-rise apartment. Its door opened and we stepped out into underground parking. We maneuvered around cars […]
April 7, 2017
Ruth Thomson stepped into society as a debutante in a white gown at the Governor General’s Ball. She was nineteen in 1959, her family […]
March 27, 2017
I sat in the church where Martin Luther preached some two thousand sermons, imagining the impact his short life had on the world. Sitting in a […]
March 6, 2017
Do you want to hear a story that will moisten the eye of even the most cynical? This dramatic and hopeful saga is located in Ghana […]
January 30, 2017
Africa’s Surprise He was the first black person I had ever met. I was a Canadian teenager and it was Sunday night church: time for the […]
October 25, 2016
It was love at first sight. Built around seven lakes, Hanoi’s French architecture tells of its colonial past; and food — always, everywhere. Streets, narrow, lined […]
October 10, 2016
In Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes a moment in time in which an idea generates such momentum that it moves forward enabled by its own critical […]
September 28, 2016
Peace is hard to come by. Ask John Kerry and his Russian equivalent Sergei Lavrov in their intermittent successes at finding a Syrian cease-fire. In the […]
September 16, 2016
Brazil is huge. A population of two hundred million live in a land mass slightly smaller than the United States or China. It’s Amazon basin, over […]