The rainy season
It rained heavily in Port-au-Prince tonight. I stood in the balcony of the Plaza hotel -- the exact spot from which Anderson Cooper broadcasted his show in January -- and…
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May 3, 2010
Back to Haiti
I returned to Port-au-Prince yesterday.Before January, it was a city known to me only through books and a few films and of course, the news – always bad news. But…
April 30, 2010
Sisters
I don't have a sister, though sometimes, in my childhood, I got a taste of what that might be like because we lived among extended families. The line between a…
April 20, 2010
Tallahassee
I graduated from high school in 1979. Never been to any of my reunions. I earned a master's degree in 1983. Never attended any college alumni functions either. But last…
March 27, 2010
For Chile
This weekend, as Chile suffered the wrath of an enormous earthquake, I reread one of my favorite poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.Ode to Broken ThingsThings get broken at home…
March 1, 2010
It's never too late to be what you might have been
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…
February 16, 2010
SOS
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…
February 10, 2010
Back to school
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.…
February 3, 2010
Faces of hope
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…
February 2, 2010
What have they done?
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…
January 30, 2010
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