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Solidarity from up close
Every beginning is difficult... • Ancient Jewish proverb I joined the carpenters’ union as a first-year apprentice in 1971. My first task on the [...]
The Nile? Bottoms up!
You can take a boat up the White Nile from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, but there’s no guarantee you’ll make it all the [...]
By the book with Suzanne
So here’s the thing. We cooks have a wealth of rules in the kitchen. The rules don't budge, even as we encourage new cooks [...]
A caution to India
In 2019, Jamil Jivani, a social entrepreneur based in Canada, published a book called “Why Young Men.” In it, Jivani takes on the herculean [...]
Two popes (who cheat theater)
Fernando Meirelles's "The Two Popes" should have been a stage play. In such a play, with Jonathan Pryce as the soon-to-be Pope Francis and [...]
An American in Lecce
Few are the American writers published in their native English in Italy, let alone in the Salento, which sits at the heel of the [...]
A killing for the good of man
Columnist Shaula Villadoniga can't get enough of the Hindu god Vishnu but it's one story that stands out.
NEW FICTION: “The Outsider”
The sight of a train brings memories. Memories I never imagined lived there. Memories about the stories my mother told me. Stories about my [...]
Five decades of moments
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. • Canadian author Sandra Lake This New Year's marked the 50th anniversary of my first international [...]
Shameless sheep
The expression "beware a wolf in sheep's clothing" goes back millennia. The ancient Greek slave and storyteller Aesop probably used it first, but it [...]
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Foreign correspondent … in Florida
Columnist Kristine Crane dreamed of being a foreign correspondent, and made strides in Rome. But her journalistic breakthrough came elsewhere.
Solidarity from up close
Every beginning is difficult... • Ancient Jewish proverb I joined the carpenters’ union as a first-year apprentice in 1971. My [...]
The Nile? Bottoms up!
You can take a boat up the White Nile from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, but there’s no guarantee you’ll [...]
By the book with Suzanne
So here’s the thing. We cooks have a wealth of rules in the kitchen. The rules don't budge, even as [...]
A caution to India
In 2019, Jamil Jivani, a social entrepreneur based in Canada, published a book called “Why Young Men.” In it, Jivani [...]
Two popes (who cheat theater)
Fernando Meirelles's "The Two Popes" should have been a stage play. In such a play, with Jonathan Pryce as the [...]
An American in Lecce
Few are the American writers published in their native English in Italy, let alone in the Salento, which sits at [...]
A killing for the good of man
Columnist Shaula Villadoniga can't get enough of the Hindu god Vishnu but it's one story that stands out.
NEW FICTION: “The Outsider”
The sight of a train brings memories. Memories I never imagined lived there. Memories about the stories my mother told [...]
Five decades of moments
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. • Canadian author Sandra Lake This New Year's marked the 50th anniversary [...]