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My son has a big bruise on his knee. The first time I noticed it was when he was taking a bath when we got to the States - his first bath s...

Back in February 2006, those of us in Haiti thought things were scary. Little did we know what scary even meant. One of the events that mo...

Right after I got here, I went to see a friend, and we mostly talked about Haiti but then we talked for about ten minutes about books. It f...



I keep remembering more things about that last day of normal. After school, my son handed me his papers, and on one of them (a handwriting ...

I thought I should write a post in the morning, when everything looks better. I'm not always in the depths of gloom. There are good th...

I told my friend and employee that we were going to leave, and she cried. That was one of the worst moments. When I say "my friend an...

Coming to the United States from Haiti is always like coming to another planet. I've written about this many times; for example, here ....

Sent to me by my dear friend Janet . God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when t...

Article here.

NPR story here.

There are so many stories from this earthquake. Each family has its own, its tale of "What if I had been there a few minutes longer?...

All day my mind races with thoughts to share here, but then when I sit down to write, everything seems so trivial. I've noticed I'v...

Children's books set in Haiti Children's books about earthquakes

I didn't know that Charles Wesley wrote earthquake hymns.

Here's a post I wrote back in 2008 while Haiti was going through terrible destruction from a hurricane. I expressed then that I am not...

When I started this blog in 2006, I decided to be anonymous for many reasons, but one of the most important to me was that I don't like ...

This time last week, my whole world changed. Today, I am living in a different country from the one I lived in then. My family is separate...

Right now I am completely overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with grief and pain and fear. I am reading bad news about people I know and love. I am ...