I was picked up at the Edmonton airport in Alberta, Canada yesterday by my friend Karen. On the drive to the hotel I peppered her with questions about her narrow escape from the Haiti earthquake.
It’s an incredible story of “coincidences” that saved her life, but it’s her story so I won’t tell it. Not… 
Archive for January 2010
Don’t Hurt Haiti. Stay Home.
Our Best Selves In The Squeeze
Our van rolled down the Mississippi highway outside of Hattiesburg in the purple hours of the early morning. Walkman’s, forbidden from youth camp, flew through busted windows. “Oh, God!” our Sunday school teacher shouted again and again.
The van came to a stop upright, on rims. The smell of gasoline scattering us from the van to… 


