Eyewitness to Terror

When my wife Linda and I returned from our honeymoon, I went to cover my first Olympics.  It was in Munich, Germany.  1972.  50 years ago today. I soon became an eye witness to terror.   A group calling themselves  “Black September” abducted...

Caring for All

Ruby Walker is an inexhaustible wisp of a woman who cleans 27 houses a week.  Five houses a day.  Two on Saturdays.  That has been her routine for two decades, since her husband died.  Most are big homes, as you might expect, but Ruby also works...

Native American Medicine

Some say Rocky Stallings knows more about early Native American life than anyone in the country.  He listened to the elders.  Listened and learned.  Where most folks see weeds, Rocky was taught to find medicine.  On a hill near his home in San...

Tina Allen Gets a Life

Tina Allen has a date with a new day.  We met her the year before, checking into an Atlanta hospice.  Alone. Doctors told the young woman she’d be dead from a brain tumor in three months.  But something rare happened inside her head.  The tumor...

Elusive Fireflies of Light

Jake Hoover was looking for gold in Yogo Creek. He discovered something more. What little gold he found was cluttered with blue stones. He tossed them into a cigar box and sent them off to Tiffany’s. The New York jewelers fired back a check. The old prospector...