By Gary Hume | Jun 23, 2015
I taught school for about 36 years. Then it was, “Oh, what a delight! Retire, read and watch movies and shop.” I got bored in 2 weeks. I looked into volunteer work. We had a food pantry nearby and I sat in the parking lot and watched what was going on. Inside, I saw...
By Gary Hume | Jun 23, 2015
I am employed by a small nonprofit organization working with the Hai Phong city government in northern Vietnam training small and medium-sized businesses on Disaster Preparedness planning. Vietnam is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural...
By Media Coverage | Apr 6, 2015
My father died in 1979. My mother died in 2009. With both parents gone, the worst memories from my childhood began to come. Suddenly, after not having written poetry for over 20 years, poems began to rise up out of me. As horrific memory after memory came, I wrote...
By Karen M. Sughrue | May 16, 2017
When classes begin each day at Leith Walk elementary school in Baltimore, Robin Weems is there to greet her first grade students. And so is Robin’s husband, Warren, a retired Marine, because Warren is his wife’s classroom assistant. This...
