Author Archives: Chris
Baby Alex
Leslie gave birth to Alexander Michael Rolling today at 3:19pm. He’s 9 pounds 13 ounces! Leslie gave birth with no drugs at all, and I’m really proud of her. She was sometimes smiling and even joking right up until the end of the pushing! She will write more about the birth here when she gets [...]
No Means No
Olivia is absolutely hilarious. I’m certain I didn’t have such a developed sense of humor when I was 3! There is an album by They Might be Giants, one of their children’s albums called “No!” I frequently sing the cover song to my daughter when she is whining and makes me say no to her [...]
Jabez Rest in Peace
I’m going to miss my dog. Jabez died of old age today, lying under the calabash tree. I guess I don’t have anything more to say about that tonight. There was a time before I ever came to Haiti when Joel and I went on an epic road trip. When we stopped for gas at [...]
This American Life
Leslie and I just took an hour and listened to this week’s episode of This American Life, which is about Haiti and the particular difficulties in trying to help this special place. It’s an hour long, but a very good hour spent by anyone interested in Haiti. “Island Life” is the name of the episode. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/?bypass=true
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Church this Morning
This weekend was a national time of prayer and fasting lasting from Thursday through today. When we showed up in church this morning, it was already full of people who had been there since 6am. They were late starting the regular service because the congregation wanted to pray longer. That’s right, we spent an hour [...]
I’ll just make this a separate post.
Ugh… I just spent the last 45 minutes trying to track down a link to a news article about one of Haiti’s deputies shooting another deputy IN the Chamber of Deputies. I couldn’t find it, so I called a Haitian friend who told me he couldn’t remember exactly, but he thought there wasn’t actually a [...]
Superwaterman
Peter made a great interview on a radio show that only talks about water and plays water music. It’s a great interview, and the podcast has a lot of interesting water music too. http://superwaterman.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=579124
Latrine Babies
This crisis has really gotten to me and I’m having trouble putting thoughts together in a way that makes sense. I’m going to do my best, but please give me a little grace if I seem like I’m raving. I realize I’ve already gotten off to a bad start with my title “Latrine Babies”. I [...]
Chris Saying His Piece.
Around May or June last year, I was hiking around in the mountains up above Montrouis and somebody asked me when the White Man was going to come and take Haiti. We talked about it while we hiked up the mountain together and I explained that the Americans would never come occupy Haiti no matter [...]
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