Hurricane Irma. Why Haiti can never seem to recover.

I sat across from Nadege. Four other women were on the couch with me, but Nadege was doing most of the talking. I had decided to have the ladies over for dinner. There were so many things on my mind and I wanted to pick their brains. You can live in Haiti for a decade...

Boundaries

I had a meeting with a co-worker in Haiti today. The tears were flowing and the weight of the world was heavier than the 103 degree hot humid air. Novens was over in the corner on a bed that is set up in the living room trying to sleep in spite of his real pain....

For whatever a woman (or man) sows….

The law of sowing and reaping is universal. It is for me one of those threads that goes through all cultures and religions in a way that shows me that God obviously thought it was important enough to tell it in every format possible. A Japanese proverb says, “A...

Seven years

I feel like I have told the story so many times. The day that started like any other day. How we went to the store and bought flour and bananas and spent the day making tortillas. How later that afternoon, the very same grocery store that I bought the flour in came...

Papillon Marketplace

On November 14th, we spread our wings and opened a store in downtown Olympia. We recruited employees who were specifically drawn to the mission of orphan prevention and because of their passion, have been amazing additions to the team and have quickly become friends...

New branches shooting up.. Papillon Marketplace

The last I wrote I was talking about all of the changes that were ahead of me. This is a brief updated to let you know that WE DID IT! We opened a store in Olympia Washington on November 14, 2016: the first of many as we want to bring the amazing work our artisans do...