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Commentary Just imagine
the equivalent of 9/11 striking the United States not once, but once every couple of days for a period of six years. There
would be a public outcry unlike anything the world has ever seen. But when the carnage happens in the Congo, the public outcry
is virtually non-existent.
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"Food Crisis is
a Silent Tsunami" News Article Rising
food prices are creating what the United Nations' World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran calls "a silent
tsunami" threatening to push "more than 100 million people" into hunger. Riots have been reported in Egypt,
Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Cote d'Ivorie. Read more "Food Crisis"
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"My Girl Lydia" Ghostwrite I would've hugged him longer, held him closer, if I had known it would be the last hug we would ever share.
I walked down the stairs of his new house in Longview-- the ritzy house in the ritzy neighborhood my step-mom Gail pressured
him to buy-- finding my dad twiddling his thumbs on the dark leather couch. He hated this house. It wasn't like
his house in the country. It wasn't a home. He designed our house in the country himself. It had gorgeous
bay windows to let the sun in, a big back yard, a fire pole, and my favorite childhood memories. My dad was staring
out of the window blankly that Sunday afternoon in January. Read more "My Girl Lydia"
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"The Night I Said
Goodbye to Jon" Personal Narrative My brother Eric's face was worn with exhaustion when he arrived home from college in his shiny green track jacket.
He had driven all day in a borrowed car. I had been playing house and eating chicken patties with ketchup at my friend Daniel's
house since Jon's accident.
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