Last week in Lviv was particularly productive for Karen and me.

Although warnings to Americans to stay out of Ukraine were becoming increasingly intense, we were getting mixed signals from our friends in-country. Their message was, in essence, that this decision should be entirely one of risk versus benefit. In other words, were the meetings we had planned essential to what we were trying to accomplish with the work of our new foundation, Ukraine Children’s Action Project  This is how we parsed the decision: Lviv? Yes, we needed to be there. Kyiv? Not so much.  (Next time, though…)

Read the rest of Dr. Irwin Redlener’s piece at Smerconish.com