It is the rainy season in Haiti. It rains like clockwork this time of the year. Each night at about 6pm, just as dusk is approaching the big rain splats start to come down. In the spring it starts around dinner time, allowing my kids to use the balcony as a...

Everywhere you go in Haiti- and I mean everywhere- the one thing that you are sure to see is women carrying baskets on their heads. Downtown they go, down to the village with hand woven baskets that sit gently on a coiled towel on top of their heads. Each morning they...

"If you quit—quitting will become easier and easier for the rest of your life." ~Osman Minkara This statement caught my attention in lieu of what happened yesterday. I was out running, Like I do. Like I have done a million times. Like so many of my friends in my...

She has about fifty women who are currently active in chemotherapy treatment. Many of these women are abandoned by their spouses and significant others following diagnosis of cancer because of the stigma and misinformation about the disease.

I remember the moment that Makilene had finally earned enough money to buy her own house after living in a tent for several years with five kids.

Hitting someone over the head with a hammer is certainly not helpful.
Of course I have to fire him right?