Remembrance

On September 11th, we are supposed to remember. People intimately involved with the events in 2001– people who lost loved ones or were injured or worked on the site– they, of course, don’t have to be prodded to remember. It’s the rest of us I wonder about–why are we remembering, and what are we supposed […]

Lost Boys

The guy who tried to blow up this latest airplane, his dad called our embassy to say, “My son is missing. He’s gotten some wacky ideas in his head. Look out for him.” Was this an agonized act of love, or a furious slap back at a wayward child? The guy’s family had lost contact […]