I took my crews to the movies this afternoon to escape the blistering heat for a couple of hours. Everyone is looking forward to going home and getting quality rest.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized,” Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust...

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn...

Today the petty officer running the pharmacy asked us for some meds that neither of us had. We told him that we might be able to obtain the needed drugs from another source. My other...

they were a little surprised, not only to find him packaged and ready to go by a N.Y. medic crew.

[Only a Canadian television news crew he spoke with has even mentioned the Sept. 11 anniversary, but] we are thinking about it throughout the day, … I’m proud of how hard they are working.

While all this was going on, the one-and-only Jimmy Swaggart was preaching from the pulpit, while the choir was singing and everyone was yelling ‘praise Jesus.’ You just can’t make this stuff up,

we no longer have to get up at 4 a.m. We can sleep in until 6 a.m. The only problem is that we’re all awake most of the night due to the high heat, humidity...

In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.

[Sunday, Sept. 11: Work begins at 5 a.m. at an outdoor clinic near the New Orleans Convention Center, teamed with other paramedic crews, three civilian doctors, a third-year medical student and two New York Fire...