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Eat your heart out, Travis Bickle
Meet Linda Randolph. Her resume is impressive. Public health pediatrician. Graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and the School of Public Health in Berkeley, California. She is president...
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I’m living in twilight
“Oh, oh Telephone Line, give me some time, I’m living in twilight.” That was Electric Light Orchestra singing a song about a man wishing his love would just pick up the phone. Back then, it was...
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Frida
This is the closest I will come to emulating Frida. Ha. If you live in the Atlanta area and have not seen the High Museum’s Frida & Diego exhibit yet, you are missing out. The show closes Sunday,...
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On this day, remember
The last day of a 12-month deployment in Iraq for the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade. The long journey home started with an incredible...
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Hamlet’s Elsinore
Our first view was just five minutes after we got off the train from Copenhagen. There it was, in all its magnificent glory, though less ominous than I had imagined it perhaps because of this glorious...
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Which country is this?
Ezequeil Zeff (left) and Lautaro Rivas of Buenos Aires. I thought I was in Amsterdam until I sat down to dine at Kantjil & de Tijger on Spruistracht. On the menu was an Indonesian feast: Pangsit...
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Silenced too soon
Michael and me at Camp Striker near the Baghdad airport in September 2005. Michael Hastings died Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles. The news hit me hard. He was 33. He was a great journalist. He...
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Pedal power? Art walk is better
Click to view slideshow. The New York Times published an interesting story today about bicycles in Amsterdam. In a city of 800,000 people, there are 880,000 bicycles. The Dutch have led the way in...
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‘When we were good men’
Noor, in a happy moment, at the school for disabled kids she attends in Baghdad. March, 2013 As a reporter, I have numerous conversations every day with people I don’t know that well or at all. Once in...
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The Fourth of July
Frederick Douglass: “This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” On the Fourth of July, I ask you: Should African-Americans celebrate this day? They were slaves when the...
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Handbag paradise
Many years ago, I walked through the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, mesmerized that the history of mankind could be told through footwear — from caveman to Christian Laboutin. I was fascinated, given my...
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Casualty
Seamus Heaney died today. The New York Times headline described him as “Irish poet of soil and strife.” I don’t pretend to always understand poetry though I savor it. I am always awed by how poets use...
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Vivek Singh
I just returned from a short trip to a part of central India that was previously unfamiliar — Gadchiroli District in the state of Maharashtra. I was there to report a rape story for CNN and traveled...
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Can A White Guy Lead An Organization Founded For Journalists of Color?
Can A White Guy Lead An Organization Founded For Journalists of Color?. via Can A White Guy Lead An Organization Founded For Journalists of Color?.Filed under: People, Racism, Uncategorized
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Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani
One reason I miss India terribly: my pishi (aunt). “When did you get home?” a friend asked me yesterday. “Last night,” I replied. “It must feel good to be back,” she said. The pause on the phone was...
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Durga
Love that we celebrate strength in a form of a woman. If only all women in India held such lofty status. Happy Durga Puja, everyone. Filed under: Asia, culture, India, Religion Tagged: Durga Puja,...
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India cyclone ravaged memories as well as land
People lost everything they had in Ersama, Orissa in the 1999 “super-cyclone.” Thinking of the 12 milion Indians who are bearing the brunt of Cyclone Phallin. Here is a piece I wrote for the Atlanta...
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Fifty-one
I turned 51 today. Last year was the milestone year. The big 50. I felt OK about it. 50 is the new 40, my older friends told me. I celebrated with a big party. My brother came from Canada, my cousin...
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Iraq’s forgotten tragedy
I met Ahmad in 2007 in Nineveh province. I think about him and all the people I met over the years in Iraq and wonder what their lives are like today. I just read an excerpt from Peter Baker’s new...
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A very difficult story
Me, reporting in Maharashtra. My friend Vivek took this photo. He was the photographer on the story. I have reported difficult stories before. It was never easy to tell tales of tragedy from places...
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