“We all tried so hard.” She told me with disappointment seeping from her eyes. The tears were not meant to come, but they forced their way through her words.

We stood in the grocery aisle, carts full of last-minute gifts and wrapping. Christmas was just a few days away from us.

She finished, “It was supposed to be a good Christmas this year, but…”

My first Christmas morning as I walked the empty streets with Anelise, we found a group of teenagers laying on an old mattress. They jumped up shouting…

This year a new tradition has begun. A tradition that no one saw coming. We can credit it to…

With Liberians, we believe that the concept of celebrating Christmas was introduced by the African American brothers who were sent to Africa in the A. D. 1800 when slavery was abolished in the west. They were hosted by …

“…I prayed, ‘God, Buddha, Jesus, Mohamed…whoever is the real God- please listen!’”

I remember the feeling of the lump that moved to my throat when he looked at me and said, "Would you like some Shari?"