Texas, Kyiv, Kabul?

One of my faithful readers asked me if I had been too busy to post on my blog.  Yes, I have.  With the NH clan one member larger and all of the travel and treachery going on at work, I just haven’t had a chance to sit down and write.  I’ve been a little more…

Life Through the Lens of Kosovo

I’m just a few hundred miles south of where I was last night but it feels like a different world.  In many ways, it is.  I’m in Pristina, Kosovo.  For those of you who don’t know, it’s the last place in the world where they actually like Americans. I just got back from dinner with…

September 11th, 2009

Looking back on that day, Clifford D. May‘s analysis is thought provoking: If this struggle is too much for the present generation, we will deserve what comes in its place. Americans used to say that freedom is not free, that it must be earned by generation after generation. That sounds hokey to 21st-century ears, I…