Reasoning for seasoning…
So, I must confess: I barely follow sports. I’m one of those people who watch the Olympics every four years and get my dose of “sport” that will satisfy me…
The market floor…
I’m beginning to return to places frequently enough that I am seeing the evolution over time. The first time I set foot in this square, I couldn’t actually see it.…
On a foreign map…
No matter how often I travel, for some reason I have a special place in my heart for maps. To see a map, recognize it as foreign, and know that…
Octoporto Rafti…
I only lived there a few months, but returning to the little bay town southeast of Athens feels like returning to a childhood home. I’m the luckiest guy in the…
Oaths and wind…
I do a few weddings a year. Weddings, engagements, bridal things… …but as posed as weddings tend to be, my favorites are the moments of silence between the poses. Between…
Fortified storms…
When you’re on a mountaintop, you’re closer to the storm. . Stay tuned… -Noah D.
The land with the jealous trees…
It is easy to look at the shanty towns and slums around Port-au-Prince as a highly disorganized mess of buildings built haphazardly on the slopes of otherwise un-inhabitable areas. These…
Our international Kinam…
Morning coffee and a little work at the Kinam Hotel in Petion-ville. Oh, the hours spent drinking gallons of coffee in this gingerbread palace. Stay tuned… -Noah D.
Climbing back out…
The area around Mount Organise and Carice is a bowl of land. There are hills, but it is generally a plateau up around 1000 meters above sea level. To escape…
Coffee, coffins, and context…
Patching a tire in Haiti. D said once, after having experienced the joys of bathing in a river: “Everything just takes so much longer to do here.” But close to…
It grows where nothing goes…
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage…
Return to Hispaniola…
Lovely day for a drive across Hispaniola. A drive from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is bizarre how different these two countries are. They share a border, yet their…