I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.