I met Mariot a few days after I arrived in Port-au-Prince. He was one of several drivers retained by CNN. Mariot spoke English well, and often, on our long days…
There are things that one remembers about a place. Things that are clear and fresh, even many years later when memories of the most obvious have faded. I find this…
A Catholic school in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Sainte Marie resumed classes Wednesday. It was a vital sign of normalcy.The kids need routine, they need to be with their friends.…
A few days ago, I accompanied CNN producer Edvige Jean-Francois to her father's grave in Port-au-Prince (she was worried that it might have been desecrated after the quake) and then…
I wandered through the Port-au-Prince cemetery today with a Haitian colleague looking for his family crypt. His heart was full of trepidation. What would he find?Had someone tossed his ancestor's…
My heart breaks.Every time I head out of the Plaza Hotel in a CNN car, my heart breaks.In the massive tent cities, in the villages, on the big island in…
I sat at work last night writing the main Haiti earthquake story for CNN Wires and my mind raced back to 2001, when I was in the Indian state of…
Two people of note died this week without fanfare or blazing headlines.The first was Mary Daly, a rip-roaring feminist who touched my life deeply when I was a student at…
The alarm sounded at 6:15 a.m., heralding the start of a momentous day. After a 8-month hiatus from the working world, Kevin returned to an office today. My journalist friends…
