Lately, it's been raining almost every day. The entrance road to our house is filled with black, soupy, stinky, mud. It looks toxic! The other day I was on foot and had to wade ankle deep through the stuff. There was no way around it, and every time you go out, you see people everywhere, picking their way around puddles, sometimes just slogging through holding up the bottoms of their pants or their sandals in their hands. One thing that's really made worse by the rain is Port

This last week started with an ill-fated mission trip. Group D'homme was asked to help sing at a funeral clear in the north part of Haiti, in an isolated congregation called Walamette. They could tell the congregation really needed the support of the church, so on Tuesday, Eliezer set out with our little car packed to capacity. I was left with a house full of "bodyguards" aka little brothers and cousins and a sister-in-law to help make me a little less lonely. And a car. Ben

It's Saturday morning and I'm in the car, eating a spicy chicken pate from a blue and white plastic bag. I am going to Delmas all by myself. I'm been putting this off because I'm quite nervous to drive and teach the class without my husband. But I know the intersections by name now, and I say them to myself, praying I won't get lost. Intersection Clercine. Turn right to Intersection Rita. Turn right onto Airport Road and go around the traffic circle and straight through that

A boy was playing with his two friends one day, and he decided to give them each a gift before they went home. He reached under a clucking mama chicken and brought out two slightly warm eggs, one for each friend. One boy went home and proudly showed the egg to his little brothers and sisters. They watched eagerly as he boiled it, then held out their hands as he carefully divided it, a piece for everyone, with a bit of salt. It seemed like the best egg they had ever tasted. Wh