A friend wrote me to say, "I disagreed with a young person and she told me that I caused her even more trauma than she already experience and that I a...
Today my son, daughter and parents are all either in or near Cambodia, a country whose fate has intersected that of my family for years (see my last t...
In 1981, Karen and I lived in Jakarta and worked in Bali. One day, my boss, David Bussau, said, "There's a village part-way up a volcano that is ve...
What a horrible phase of life middle school was for me. Barely graduated from sixth grade, I was 77 pounds and suddenly found myself in West Jr. ...
Judgmental people frustrate me. I want to respond in kind - crossing swords with them. But Gene Horne changed my perspective with his story of God ...
In my book, Kingdom Journeys, I talk about going on my own World Race. I was 22 years old when I started. It took three years, mostly in Indonesia and...
If you are a parent or may one day raise children, what is your philosophy of pain? How much should you allow your children to experience? Surprisingl...
When my parents arrived in the little town of Corrubbio just outside of Verona (that story here), they already had my nanny lined up. I was two. M...
Thirteen years after WW2 ended, my mom was a teacher putting my dad through medical school. Then - whoops - she got pregnant with me. They did thi...
What would you do if you were going to be killed because you were smarter than your peers? Would you lie about your background? Last month I wa...
