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  • How To Be A Good Friend When Her Baby Dies

    Breathe. Hot, steamy water ran down my body, as I showered. My heart thudding in my chest, I recounted the details of the unexpected phone call I had just received. The message I hadn’t expected to hear. The message I…

  • Where Do You Find Your Strength?

    My neck and shoulders were stiff from holding myself so tightly on the long drive through the remote, rough terrain out to the water pump. The vast countryside, peppered with oxen and mules has a beauty uniquely its own. A…

  • What Role Models Do You Have?

    We arrived at the school 5 plus hours after leaving our hotel in Port-au-Prince this morning. Traffic in the city had been at a literal standstill and the stop-and- go twists and turns of the remaining 4 hours into the…

  • When She’s Halfway to 20

    We are sitting side by side at our beat up kitchen table. Yes, the table where I fed her her first bits of solid food, food she sucked back so quickly because this first time Mom didn’t realize she shouldn’t…

  • The Last Day of School; Who Grades Mom?

    Raise your hand if you’re a Mom and this week, or two, or three, was a tad bit overwhelming? Both hands raised here. The schedule alone was demanding. The back and forth, the here and there. Literally Saturdays and every…

  • Crossroads

    It’s an internal crossroads of sorts. It wasn’t deliberate; an unintentional silencing attributed largely to the deepest, purest love of mankind, motherhood. Based on tending to the immediate more pressing needs of the smallest dependents it slipped away, unnoticed for the…

  • Brushing Shoulders

    There is a woman, a beautiful woman who, just this morning woke up and wondered if she belongs.  This woman has walked through a number of difficult things in life; some things harder than she thought she could bear. She’s…

  • When She Buys You a Fountain Pen

    It’s been an emotional week to say the least. Tuesday I dropped Zoë and Eliya off for their first days of school this year (Gr 2 & 4FI) and although I will admit to being a wee bit nervous I…

  • Reflecting on Häiti

    February 27, 2011 Reflecting on Häiti: A Sisterhood of Understanding Mike asked us all an interesting question tonight at supper. Did you have a “moment” when things changed for you here in Häiti? It was a question I hadn’t really…