Cyclone Pam

Dear friends, Today, it’s been six months since Cyclone Pam, and five months since the kids and I arrived here to face the mammoth task of unpacking, learning our new …

I don’t know quite where to start talking about what is going on with emergency response efforts in Vanuatu right now. I was literally sleeping in the middle of it …

It’s a strange thing to arrive, for the first time, in a country that is destined to become your home. It all gets even weirder when that country is largely …

Friends, I’ve arrived in Port Vila. I knew the storm had been brutal, but it’s one thing to hear words like “devastated” and quite another to see it for yourself. …

I can’t believe it’s only been four days since I last talked to Mike, four days since the cyclone hit. It seems like weeks. I just had my first extended …

Last night was horrendous. I’m quite sure it wasn’t as awful for me as it was for Mike and his colleagues as they bunkered down in a small room at …