The Cohen Veterans Network, which runs mental health clinics across the country, has arrived in Colorado with its pledge that therapists will see those who have served since 9/11 and their families within a week of initial screening.

Aretha Franklin gave a slow, unadorned, almost funereal rendition of our national anthem. A version you could take a knee to. A version that gave me the title for my book.

Only one facility in the nation, at the University of Mississippi, has federal approval to grow marijuana for research, creating a bottleneck even as military veterans press for studies into a drug many believe can help relieve their PTSD symptoms. The clamor to try something new like marijuana is driven by frustration with old remedies. 

A conversation with Anne Trujillo on Denver Channel 7's weekly political affairs program.

Anne ensured it was a relaxed interaction.

But war correspondent? Not so much. I did not write the intro. Interesting how often people assume a foreign correspondent is a war correspondent.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/writer-finds-war-conversations-more-obvious-in-colorados-small-towns-inner-cities

Military veteran and first-time novelist Matthew Robinson tells me he has a compulsion to try to bridge the divide between the tiny population of Americans who have fought the war on terror and the rest of us, whose obliviousness can seem like cruelty.

In her Pioneer Girl, novelist Bich Minh Nguyen offers us Lee, a protagonist who is both a thief and a literary sleuth. The morally complex detectives of the best mysteries always interest me more than the whodunnit puzzles of the stories' crimes.

My friend Himanee Gupta-Carlson asks, “Could there be a way to think of America differently?”

She offers a model for doing just that in her honest, sometimes painful, always graceful book Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America. It is part memoirs, part ethnographic study -- personally engaging, academically thorough.