After sleeping in the parking lot of the Hotel Oloffson the night before, we headed to David’s mother’s (Mama Tita) house. Her home, which was mostly destroyed, will serve as our home base. These words destroyed, demolished, leveled … they have new meanings for me after seeing things in Port-au-prince and even more so in [...]
Fortune smiles upon us, though Fate lays a challenging path. Last night all seven us of, David, Charles, Jeremiah, Johnny, Jesus, Marly, and myself sat down all together for the first time and talked. We needed that talk as a group of strangers meeting for the first time to engage in politically and socially tricky [...]
After an early flight out of JFK, Marly, Jesus, and I arrived safely in Santo Domingo without any friction or major problems (other than JetBlue trying to ruin me by taking an extra $500 by mistake and refusing to fix their mistake in a timely fashion … don’t get me started. More on that later). [...]