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I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going... →
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good...... →
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers.... →
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or... →
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any... →
One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of... →
There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war... →
We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be... →
When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what... →
While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some... →
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