Within one week the Canadian Relief Foundation sends out a call for volunteers to join a
team going to Pakistan, leaving in just two days. I reread the notice thinking “I wish I could …

I was enjoying a beautiful sunset at my home in the Himalayas when my local caretaker
broke the silence. He wanted me to take a look at his ailing father.I fetched my stethoscope …

SHE WOKE at midnight. She always woke up then without having to rely on an alarm clock.
A wish that had taken root in her awoke her with great accuracy. For a few moments she was …

Jane Carter was at her home near Nairobi, Kenya, when she heard the boom." I didn't think
anything of it, but as I was driving to work traffic was flowing out of the city, which was …

patches that rob colour from her cheeks, that shadow her eyes, that paint the hands that will
never be brightened by henna. We are connected, hip to thigh to knee as she whispers into …

Happy New Year, Friends! We are already a week into this New Year of 2020 and into a
New Decade. I feel a mix of emotions as I think about how this year is going so far. In and …

“Was there an especially riveting case that you could share with us?” we asked Dr Ralph
Koon-ho Cheung, an emergency medicine specialist, as we kick-started the interview at his …

Today I received a phone call from Diethono Nakhro, the commissioner of persons with
disability, Nagaland government. Her voice was kind. She explained that the Central …

I should not have come to Scotland. It's too cold and I arrived in the wrong year, in the
season furthest away from summer. You could fry an egg on the bonnet of a car at midday …

3 2 bustle, beep, a clamour of rickshaw, we're there, long stare, bricks, dust, an invitation, hot
corn bites, bikes, ladies sitting side saddle, scarf colours whirl, children on handlebars, a call …