connecting*the*dots

I was catching up with my good friend Jonathan Daniel last week–he just returned from an African, Middle Eastern, Asian solo hike–and he managed to bring the war in Iraq much closer to home.

The plight of abducted journalist Jill Carroll has been covered extensively by Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing over the past few weeks. I never made the connection before, but apparently Jonathan and I are only separated by a few degrees from Jill, as we grew up with former Montclair, NJ resident Dan Murphy, Jill’s colleague at The Christian Science Monitor.

Jill’s captors have made demands for her release. Please help keep this story active.