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…