L’etat, L’ecole et L’eglise

Right now, Haiti is news. But how long will it last? In this day and age of the 24-hour, 7-days-a-week news cycle, how long will it take for us to become bored and tired of yet another Haiti story? … Last Monday, almost no one was talking about Haiti. In the week since, it’s been [...]

Just Don’t Call it Soccer

I like my life. I’ve been pretty lucky to have been born where and when I did. But every now and then, I can’t help but look wistfully to our Eastern neighbors across the Atlantic and think, “I should have been born a European.” I’m not a big sports person. I don’t like basketball, I [...]

Faire Le Pont

In French, faire le pont literally translates to “to make the bridge,” but it’s really an idiom that means “to take a long weekend.” If we were in the United Kingdom or Ireland, this weekend would be referred to as a “bank holiday” weekend, so named because the first hour official state-sponsored holidays (think government [...]