Haiti: A Year Later

While Americans ripped open packages and feasted on turkey, cookies, and fudge during December, Haitians experienced quite the opposite conditions.  As we gathered with friends and family in decked out houses with lights and trees, many of them were forced to find shelter under blue plastic tarps.  Crammed in with other hungry, desperate people, rapes…

Remember the Wallet

  I recently met Kim, an old college friend, at Southcenter Mall.  She asked to treat me to The Spaghetti Factory for a belated birthday lunch.  After a lot of arm-twisting (okay, not really!), I agreed.  We enjoyed catching up on each other’s lives over salad, warm sourdough bread, spinach ravioli, and pasta with clam…