Thank You, Life! & Cupcakes...

While waiting for our plane back to Vancouver at the Los Angeles airport a few weeks ago, I impulse-bought Dave Eggers' book "What Is The What", a memoir of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who, at seven years old, flees his village which is under attack, and walks with a group of young boys to the eventual safety of Kenya. On the way, they are targeted, murdered,