Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on the campus of Michigan State University. I was invited by the leadership of the student organization, Into the Streets. It was a full circle moment for me. I had been involved with a group of students in [...]
One of the projects that I have thrown myself into since I have been back in the country is around organizing nonprofits around the 2010 Census. The 2010 Census is important to Michigan because it will designate the number of seats we have in Congress as well as determine the amount of federal funding we [...]
I was asked by the publisher of the weekly newspaper in the Lansing/East Lansing area to write about my journey. It came out this week. This is what I had submitted to them.
Dear Gentle Reader,
I am back at working and currently blogging about a conference that I am attending for Crain's Detroit Business. The regular blog will be back next week with the last updates of the trip and my reintegration to the US and work-life! Here is the next installment:
They Are Today's Leaders
Young talent is the [...]
Dear Gentle Reader,
I am back at working and currently blogging about a conference that I am attending for Crain's Detroit Business. The regular blog will be back next week with the last updates of the trip and my reintegration to the US and work-life! Here is the next installment:
So Why Don't We Treat the State [...]
Dear Gentle Reader:
I have made it back to the US and to my home East Lansing, Michigan. I will be finishing my posts about Israel next week. I am jumping into my job feet first by attending a policy conference on Mackinac Island for the Detroit Chamber of Commerce. I was asked to blog about [...]
We stop this blog to give you a perspective on the Pope's visit to Jerusalem since it is in the news right now.
Media ReactionI decided to stay in Jerusalem a few extra days so I could get a sense of the historic visit of Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land. There was [...]
I was at a cafe in Damascus having lunch when an older German women said something to me in German. I understood the gist of what she was asking but I responded in English. She looked at my with a puzzled look and asked me where I was from and I told her, "the USA." She said [...]
A reader recently asked me about the coverage of the swine flu epidemic in Egypt. I had begun to hear about the epidemic when I arrived to the country from Jordan. There hadn't been much local perspective because there hadn't been any cases found in the Middle East at that point. Most of the [...]
I can't remember the last time I actually cried while I read a book. Sure, I have been misty eyed here or there but not to the point of actual tears and this was a nonfiction book. John Carlin has delivered one of the the best sports books that I have ever read. Carlin has [...]
