Do you remember the last time you read a folktale? No, not a Disney movie, but a story with lessons? Now think of kids in the new generation. Do you think they are learning folktales? We once used folktales to teach what it meant to live, to make mistakes, and to learn. In recent years, how many of those lessons have been rewritten into happy endings? In the past century, these traditional stories have been completely transformed by mass media companies such as Disney. What were once moral lectu...

You truly don’t understand a conflict or what a region is going through, until you’ve seen it with your own eyes, and heard the suffering told by the inhabitants. And even so, you still won’t fully understand unless you are living in it. When I traveled to Israel in September, I did not go as a reporter or an activist, but as a witness. An outsider. The goal was to understand what life looks like and the different perspectives in a place where history, loss, and resilience coexist every day. And I saw it all.

As an amputee, I often wonder what causes people to look the other direction when seeing something or someone that looks "different". Not even because of their personality or values, but what goes on chemically.