Hiding the lunch ticket

Monday, January 16th, 2012

I was an outsider at my junior high school. Why was I ashamed of my family’s poverty?

Illiterate in 3 languages

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

At a meeting in Amman, Jordan, high-powered social policy analysts from many nations were deploring the limited intelligence of illiterates and the effects on their offspring; I rushed to defend illiterates. Then, I suddenly realized that my mother had been an illiterate.