On the train destined for Stockholm, Sweden on Nov. 1, 2008. By Christopher Wink | Oct 23, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com You take trains from big cities to other big cities. Lands, untold by tour books and unseen by sloppy tourists like yourself, unfold beneath your high carriage of jet setting: two months, 10 cities 3,000 [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Temple News Temple University has been built on the backs of the dead. It’s late October, and we think about the old, the hidden and the dead. Temple has its ghosts, indeed. TEMPLE BY GRAVES In the 1880s, Russell Conwell was laying the groundwork for what [...]

By Christopher Wink | Feb. 16, 2008 Mike came to me. The platform at City Hall station doesn’t afford much room to maneuver. Before I knew his name, I knew he was Puerto Rican and friendly, with a bag of CDs and dirt under fingernails that needed attention by anyone’s standards. After we formally introduced [...]

By Christopher Wink | August 29, 2005 | Travel Reflection Africa was not real to me.  It was imaginary; I saw a place where elephants roam and people starve.  I saw children with flies around their faces in villages and huts and tribes.  I saw in stereotypes and misunderstandings and prejudices and lies.  That was all [...]

By Christopher Wink | January 28, 2005 On a recent trip to poverty ravaged Tijuana, I could not help but see the irony, clichéd as it may be, of a border wall – that divides with great tumult the U.S. and Mexico – extending into the serenity of the Pacific Ocean. It is unreal to [...]

By Christopher Wink | Aug 3, 2007 | New York Times Magazine submission There has been a great loss in the level of activism among college students since the turbulent 1960s. Complacency reigns over the people. Today’s twenty-something, anarchist-punk, bicycle-messenger population is dwindling. Those that have survived are crestfallen. The man with the thin gray [...]

By Christopher Wink | May 23, 2006 It was January 16, 2006 that I was offered and I accepted an internship with the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was that very Monday that I accepted a position I hadn’t expected to get, a position with the city desk of a large, historical, urban daily. I think about the [...]

By Christopher Wink | Nov 13, 2006 | The ISRST Review [PDF] The American population gurgled over 300 million some time in October of 2006, and it never paused. A solid 67 percent of that population considers itself non-Hispanic white in racial makeup, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning nearly 100 million Americans are responsible for [...]