I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive..

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey..

I am so proud to be a Canadian..

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand..

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in re….

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks..

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain..

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine..