Archive for July 26th, 2011

Go and Purchase This Book

My brilliant sister who’s doing post-conflict research on a grant from the Wellcome Trust just handed me a book of amazing poetry called The Not Dead by Simon Armitage. I’ll be frank.  I normally don’t like poetry, but the poems in this book are so moving and poignant, that I found myself reading and rereading [...]


What We Don’t See

A few days ago I received an email from a US Army sergeant stationed in Iraq.  He was writing to tell me how much he wished he had his camera so he could take pictures of the military drawdown going on right now.  In lieu of images, he describes a scene in a parking lot [...]