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• The conflicted Samaritan: when a neighbor is beyond help 

  I was traveling by taxi from Delhi to Dehradun. It usually takes about seven hours over a very rough one-lane road. We were almost home, at the...

  Commonweal, 02/13/09 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• On edge: living with fear in India 

  A friend of mine who lived in India and Nepal for many years wrote to me recently from Geneva. She works there with the World Health Organisation....

  Commonweal, 12/01/08 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• Spare every expense, except one: my mother's obituary 

  When my mother, Patricia McGowan, died in late June, we chose the cheapest coffin for her burial. The funeral director brought the glossy album of...

  Commonweal, 10/10/08 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• A Brightness on the Road 

  I have friends who love e-mail "forwards," both getting and sending them; but I have successfully discouraged most of them from including me in...

  Human Life Review, 07/01/08 by McGowan, Jo · More from publication

• Of poems and pogo sticks 

  I loved John Savant's wonderful "'You Come Too'" (March 14). Its delicious use of language (the bishop on a pogo stick, images lying about like...

  Commonweal, 04/11/08 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• Touching the untouchables: the life of Baba Amte 

  When Baba Amte died here in India in February, at the age of ninety-three, he was remembered as the champion of people affected by leprosy. The...

  Commonweal, 04/11/08 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• Pious carnage: the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India 

  Recent reports from postelection Kenya, particularly of the burning of a church packed with Kikuyu women and children, sent a shudder around the...

  Commonweal, 01/31/08 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• The trash man Cometh: consumerism & India's refuse problem 

  My kitchen window overlooks a vacant lot. Like other vacant lots in India, it is covered with plastic bags, old shoes, broken glass, newspapers,...

  Commonweal, 11/09/07 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• After the floods: how nature reacts to our mistakes 

  The rainbow and God's promise to Noah must be of scant comfort to the thousands in England, hundreds of thousands in North Korea, and millions in...

  Commonweal, 09/14/07 by Jo McGowan · More from publication

• Through a lens brightly: what photography teaches us 

  I have been taking photographs for most of my adult life. With no technical knowledge of f-stops, apertures, or how to work with light and shadow,...

  Commonweal, 03/23/07 by Jo McGowan · More from publication