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From Kharkiv
It has been 20 months to the day since I first arrived at the snow covered Ukraine-Poland border to help refugees. I never expected to cross the border…
Dec 3, 2023
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April 2023
From Lviv
It took a tragedy to remind us why we’re all here. Our trusted and loyal canine friend, Monty, who has been with our team from the beginning, passed…
Apr 23, 2023
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February 2023
From Miami
A year ago yesterday I was at a restaurant here in Miami with my Ukrainian friends, debating what was on everybody's mind at the time: whether Putin…
Feb 25, 2023
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December 2022
From Kyiv
I’m sitting in a London-themed coffee shop in north central Kyiv, surrounded by portraits of Queen Elizabeth II artistically shrouded in the blue and…
Dec 21, 2022
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July 2022
From Copenhagen
I’m sitting in a Copenhagen coffee shop during a brief layover on my way back to New York. On my walk here from the train station, I’ve already seen two…
Jul 31, 2022
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From Kharkiv
Insulin has to be stored between 5 and 15 degrees Celsius. The only way to transport something over 1,000 km at that temperature during a…
Jul 17, 2022
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From Zhytomyr
After a couple false starts involving bum paperwork and a particularly ornery Polish border officer, I’ve finally crossed into Ukraine and made my first…
Jul 10, 2022
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From Newark
I’m at the airport awaiting my connecting flight to Zurich. This time tomorrow I’ll be in Warsaw, and the day after, if all goes to plan, I’ll be back…
Jul 4, 2022
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May 2022
From Medyka
I’m writing to you from one of the countless border crossing lines I’ve waited on in the last two weeks. I’m on my way to Poland to pick up several more…
May 29, 2022
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From Lviv
I’m back in Ukraine. In the last few weeks, my work here has become a full time job, on top of the day job I already have. Doing the first from 8am-3pm…
May 22, 2022
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From Lviv
Sometime around 2:10am in the morning last night, as air raid sirens were blaring in Lviv along with almost every other region in the country, I found…
May 8, 2022
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From Dubiecko
In one of his most memorable keynotes, Steve Jobs once told the graduates of Stanford University “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can…
May 5, 2022
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