I had lunch with a man kidnapped for seven years by the FARC guerillas. Most of his clothes rotted off him. When the Colombian army rescued him, he said the ride home on the helicopter was gorgeous. The whole day was heaven: hugging his family, taking a …
While waiting for my younger son to come out of surgery, a doctor I met for two minutes is cutting through his boyish flesh. I wonder if the doctor’s marriage is happy, and if he had a good evening last night, and does he have a son in trouble? How…
The teacher showed the students how to paint a tree: she crayoned a green circle stuck on a brown stick and said, “This is a tree. Now take your crayons and draw one.” Danny knew trees. He almost lived in trees. He climbed them, swung from th…
