Amanda Lindhout

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.