This past November, I had the opportunity to travel to Nagasaki again to visit Sachiko Yasui. I also had a chance to reconnect with my good friend Dr. Takayuki Miyanishi, Professor of Environmental Science at […]
Greetings from Dr. Takayuki Miyanishi:
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard:
A Necessary Story for Our Time
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard is a film for everyone—teachers, community leaders, people of faith, people with big hearts—and world leaders, particularly our world leaders. Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard will help all of us […]
A New Audience for Sachiko: Doctors
This August, I was invited to Madison, Wisconsin to share Sachiko Yasui’s story of surviving the Nagasaki atomic bomb. The Women’s International League for Peace and Justice and Physicians for Social Responsibility were my hosts. […]
“All Real Living is Meeting”
Meet Kevin McGee
Philosopher Martin Buber has a quote I admire: “All real living is meeting.” Lately, I’ve taken that quote to heart and have started asking colleagues for intentional conversations around topics we both believe are important. […]
Paying It Forward
In 2012, while working on my research for SACHIKO, I received a Kawase Family Scholarship to travel to Hiroshima. The scholarship stipulated that I would attend two events: the international Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on […]
Can a Children’s Book Change the World?
On Wednesday, May 17, I had an author’s experience that turned into an author’s gift. I was invited to Valley View Middle School in Edina, Minnesota, to hear what 7th grade students had to say […]
Sachiko Yasui and Jane Addams, Teachers of Peace
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story is the 2017 winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for books for older children. When I got the phone call from Heather Palmer, chair of the Jane […]
Let Our Voices Be Heard
When I first received an invitation to the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville to participate on a panel titled, “Nuclear War: Survivors, Resistors, and Current Perils,” I hesitated. Of course, it would be […]
A Call to Action
What is peace? What kind of person do I want to be? Pursue answers to these questions. These were the last words Sachiko Yasui shared with me for our book before I sent in my […]
The Path to Sachiko: The Journey Continues …
This January, right after New Year’s, I traveled to Nagasaki, Japan to fulfill a promise. I would present Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story to Sachiko Yasui. Sachiko and I had been dreaming of this […]
