The Dream That Pushes Us Forward
From a young age I dreamed of distant lands. Adventures in exotic places filled my head as I made my long walk...
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Oct 30, 20199 min read
Life Is Precious
Behind every proverb, there is experience and reflection. Now, I don’t claim to know it all, but I know what I’ve lived...
Oct 18, 20197 min read
A Desert Rat’s Tale of Survival
I was born into what became a large family of eleven children. As I was one of the oldest, I had new siblings on an almost yearly basis...
Oct 9, 20197 min read
Memories of a Minesweeper
I can still remember the smell of the city streets before there were cars. Trams and horse-drawn carts trundled past...
Sep 5, 20198 min read
No More Wandering
The person I am today is not even close to the person I was 20 years ago, and I’m proud of that...
Aug 15, 20199 min read
The Sound of Hope
That year, there was a massacre in an eastern village. Nearly 600 were killed with sprays of bullets and machetes...
May 31, 20198 min read
Waiting for Peaceful Skies
A patient of mine, a World War II veteran, sat in front of me on the examination table. I made a note in his health card and suggested...
Mar 22, 20197 min read
As I Looked into the Eyes of My True Love
I did not come into a perfectly happy world upon my birth in 1883. My mother had always blamed my father for disappearing into his dirty...
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