The Woman I was hearing talk around the community about a woman I adore who I hadn’t seen in a few weeks that is now “kokobè”. This Kreyol word means handicapped. The woman that broke my heart in 2015, who even in her old age, decided to care for her orphaned granddaughter. With this young, spunky [...]
59. Friendships, experiences, tears, joy, fear, baptisms, growth, and finally, time. This figure symbolizes much to me. Could you guess it? This is the number of people that I have lived with since starting this life with Breathe. Other than my faithful friend Stephanie, who has more years here in Haiti than I do, this [...]
Becoming Moving to a different country is weird. It is stretching. Scary. Exciting. Growing. And just about every other adjective you can think of could potentially fit into this category of "moving countries". Sometimes, it is simply just hilarious. Might I say, moving to our little country of Haiti is like becoming 13 again. At [...]