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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Things We Carried
A week or so before I return to Haiti I send a ‘Mule to Haiti’ email to my connections asking what they want me to bring down. I am allowed one 50 pound bag in coach, a second costs forty … Continue reading
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Tagged Be Like Brit, BLB, Granite City Electric, Haiti, Logan airport, MoHI
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$5.77
Consider the following word problem that might appear on the fourth grade MCAS Test. Paul orders a cupcake at a service center restaurant along the Mass Turnpike. The total, including tax, is $2.77. Paul hands the person at the cash … Continue reading
My Dinner with Andy
In honor of Father’s Day, I am posting this essay I wrote three years ago. It actually happened, and was the best Father’s Day gift a dad could receive. It’s getting on seven o’clock Saturday night. I’m sitting in the … Continue reading
In A Country of Teenagers, A Young Man Grows Up
Haiti is a country of teenagers. I did not originate that saying, Renee did, but it is the best single description of the place I’ve heard. Teenagers are unformed yet egotistical, lack competence yet are overconfident, wound others recklessly yet … Continue reading
A Map of the World
What does the world look like to man who has never traveled more than forty miles from home? He lived in a quiet place among his own kind. There were missionaries, of course, earnest white people who dispensed clothing and … Continue reading
Hoola for Happiness
With seven billion people in the world I should have guessed that one would be a hula fairy, but who knew I would be fortunate enough to fall under her spell beneath the thatched chaconne at Mirlitone? Any adjective short … Continue reading
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