I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.