My Piece in Best American Travel Writing
“To the Doctor in Bujumbura’s Quarantine Hotel,” originally published by Off Assignment‘s Letter to a Stranger I see you up close. You stand in…
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What it means when ‘we are together’
For so long, everywhere I’ve been, everywhere I’ve worked, people admired American ideals. They believed in them, and in us — which we didn’t deserve even before, given all the horror we’ve let loose on the world — and they thought our ideals were something they could have a piece of, too.
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Calling Female Filmmakers
I’ve gotten several notices in the last several days about money for female filmmakers. Here’s what I’ve heard — add anything you know about…
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Praise posts
My notebooks from Europe are full of gratitude. That’s a strange thing to say, maybe, about the work behind two rather depressing stories, one about…
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From the Department of Gentle Suggestions
Apparently all of us have had a lot to say since Paris. I’ve not had so much to say, until a couple days ago,…
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Welcome (back)
Like a lot of us, I used to blog like crazy. It helped me think, and it helped me get work as a freelance journalist. Then…
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“We lost everything. I can’t begin to tell you, what is our everything.”
This is what a man in the Bentiu refugee camp told me. He sought me out when he saw me writing down what women…
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