It is easy to impose our own vision of home and happiness on people who don't care as much about it as we do.
Living on the streets in Mumbai
a guide to tipping in India
How much to tip seems like an unimportant question when there are two families living on the sidewalk outside my hotel window.
passage to India
The colors are rich and vibrant—the flowers and fruit and fabric join the assault on the senses. It makes you wish you had a better camera. Or at least a better memory
the work of angels
Angels are so powerful, it doesn't take many of them to get the job done. In human history, they have almost always appeared in ones and twos. But Christmas Eve was different.
the silence of the night
I’m not saying if we sang a few Christmas carols our politicians would quit lying and our celebrities would quit fornicating. I’m just saying we have gained nothing by banning such music and have lost a great deal.
the daysman 