The meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama can be described as a quot yes we can moment quot It has been said that under Blessed Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan a meeting of like-minded souls took place that helped to challenge and tear down a wall the Berlin Wall This

I rsquo m very grateful to have the mother that I do Among the many and varied reasons I have for my gratitude certain news events have reminded me of yet another When I was three years old at a Peach Festival in Western New York a man approached my mother and offered to buy me for 500 on the

As a child of the 70s and a life-long science nerd I rsquo m old enough to remember watching Carl Sagan rsquo s ldquo Cosmos A Personal Voyage rdquo when it first aired in 1980 Released while the Cold War was still raging Carl Sagan rsquo s ldquo Cosmos rdquo brought us a world of wonder and

Cambridge MA I am back in Cambridge after my more than ten weeks in South Asia India Sri Lanka Nepal and will spend the next days sifting through piles of mail catching up on things I postponed ldquo until I am back rdquo and readjusting my sleep 9 5 times zones difference and internal

About a month ago in a speech he called ldquo My Brother rsquo s Keeper rdquo President Barack Obama called upon the American people mdash business industry educational institutions and non-profit foundations in particular mdash to face up to the scandalous condition of young men of color To p

Kathmandu Nepal As faithful readers of this blog will know I have spent the last ten weeks in South Asia ndash Chennai Kolkata Pune Colombo and Jaffna in Sri Lanka See my previous entry nbsp and the links in it to the first three I am now completing ten days in the Himalayan country of Ne