For the past couple of weeks, in the back seat of my truck lie two small blocks of packing foam—trash by all appearances, except to me. As I loaded my truck a couple of weeks ago bound for a new chapter in my life, I worried aloud to my daughter that some of the load […]
Years ago, as a reporter covering the immigrant community in Washington, D.C., I wrote about two seemingly unrelated, but ultimately inter-connected phenomena. The first had to do with a high rate of domestic violence among immigrants. The second was about a high rate of alcoholism among immigrant men. Experts explained immigrant families often go through […]