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Visiting Afghanistan for a second time, a war correspondent noted that since the fall of the Taliban, wives who used to walk ten paces behind their husbands were now walking ten paces in front. The journalist asked one of the men if this was a sign of growing equality.
“No”, the man replied. “Land-mines.”
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After I tucked my six-year-old daughter into bed, she asked if she could sleep with Snuggles, my special teddy bear, because she was just a little scared.
I looked at her bed, filled with her own dolls and bears, and said, “What about all of these?” “They won’t help,” she replied. “They’re already asleep.”
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