On twitter this week, @PhilCooke posted this thought: “Complaining is like throwing up. You may start to feel better, but everyone around you suddenly feels sick.” I’m not sure why, but this really resonated with me. I immediately thought of all the people in my life who complain … and in turn make me [...]

Last week I was riding on the back of a scooter through the dirty, windy streets of a village in Haiti.  There were so many sights, sounds and smells. But what I remember most was a line … a line of people waiting for water. Children wait in this line spending most of their day [...]

We will never know what she was thinking the day she walked to the river with all her boys in tow. Perhaps she was suffering from depression or was mentally unstable. Maybe a life of extreme poverty had proven too much to bear. Whatever the reason, there was no excuse or explanation for what happened [...]

Watch Dieunie-Love’s Story – Haiti Spring ’13 on Vimeo

Beautiful 4-year-old Dieunie-Love (pronounced “Jenny-Love”) greeted me with a shy smile as she leaned up against her makeshift home in the crowded, dusty village of Oanaminthe, Haiti. We stepped into the first of only two small dark rooms where there were just a few pieces of furniture [...]

Watch Lonique’s Story – Haiti Spring ’13 on Vimeo

Read more about my time with Lonique on World Help’s blog >