Is it a revolution?
I have not posted anything in a while -- I've been drowning at work with the Egypt story.But today, it happened. The unthinkable, really. I never thought that sheer people…
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February 12, 2011
Hannah
On a dark and wintry night, the bar at Fornino looked inviting. Warm. Soft candles on the white marble counter. We were going to have just one drink, to warm…
January 20, 2011
'Misery adds to misery'
A year ago, I wrote a blog that began like this: "My heart breaks."I had just arrived in Haiti after the earthquake and the scale of suffering was shocking.A year…
January 9, 2011
Survival — and love
I first met Falone Maxi when she was lying on a mattress on the dirt. A sheet was her roof. But she liked it that way. Healing from her wounds…
December 28, 2010
A long and winding road
It's not that far from Port-au-Prince to Ouanaminthe, a town that borders the Dominican Republic in northern Haiti. I'd say it was about 200 miles at most.We ventured out Thursday…
December 14, 2010
Tourist
Tourist, don’t take my pictureDon’t take my picture, touristI’m too uglyToo dirtyToo skinnyDon’t take my picture, white manMr. Eastman won’t be happyI’m too uglyYour camera will breakI’m too dirtyToo blackWhites…
November 23, 2010
Now this
Tomas is approaching.The hurricane is predicted to hit Haiti by Friday. I called my friend Mariot in Port-au-Prince. "Are you OK? What about your family? Are you still living under…
November 5, 2010
Evita
She was a bastard child whose rags to riches story enthralled the entire world. At the tender age of 15, Eva Duarte moved to Buenos Aires to make a name…
October 22, 2010
Soweto
Hector Pieterson was only 12 when he was gunned down -- a hail of bullets cutting short the life of a young black boy and triggering what came to be…
September 28, 2010
Mosi-oa-Tunya
Mosi-oa-Tunya means: the smoke that thunders.It's an appropriate name for what the British named Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of water in the world, a mile-wide cataract in the Zambezi…
September 12, 2010