Transport truck in the hills above Jacmel; the text reads "Snow." A tap-tap is Haitian public transport. Like the jitney in Jamai...

The books I finished this week were both from my classroom shelves, and both recommended by my eighth grade daughter. Book #62 was Habibi ...

There were so many deaths this week in Haiti from cholera. Each one was an irreplaceable human soul, a person who was loved. This week we ...

I am afraid my poor blog has been a bit neglected this week. I continue to have normal days at school, with the addition of some cholera an...

These are all pictures I took on the way to and from church this morning. The bicentennial monument is covered with campaign advertising. O...

News reports are saying this morning that 220 people have died so far of cholera in Haiti and that there are now cases in Port-au-Prince. ...

Book #59 was Baking Cakes in Kigali , by Gaile Parkin. As the title suggests, this book is about a woman who lives in Kigali and bakes cak...

Yesterday's Poem-A-Day email from Poets.org contained a sonnet by A.E. Stallings. It was a perfect English teacher poem. Sea Girls ...

Dokte Jen blogged on cholera.

Right after the earthquake we heard dire predictions of epidemics, and so far those hadn't come true. But today there is news of a chol...

So I haven't been posting as much lately as my faithful readers have come to expect. But here are some great Haiti posts I read this mo...

My camera batteries were dead when I tried to take a picture on our way to church, so I don't have any photos for you today. I would ha...

by Carolyn Arends I was hoping you would write to me a message in the stars As if the stars themselves were not enough And I awaited your ar...

While I'm happy to be back at work, all this reading of student work leaves me little time for my own reading and writing. But I have b...

My mom took this photo down the street from my parents' house, the house where I spent six months this year after the earthquake. Where...

I needed Jon's serious Wednesday post today.

It has been nine months today since the earthquake. Nine months, and hundreds of thousands still live in tents. Nine months, and 2% of the...

Eagle Market was one of the first places we went when we moved to Haiti. It was a grocery store in our neighborhood; we could walk there an...

We have an election coming up on November 28th, and the advertising is everywhere. Here are just a few of the candidates:

I had the great pleasure today of listening to one of my favorite authors, Barbara Kingsolver, being interviewed on one of my favorite radio...