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A piece for Granta about a man who returns to Haiti to live up to his missionary grandfather’s extraordinary legacy: The Grandson of Jesus Christ.
In memory of John Helmer, Jr., Haberdasher, a man who sold European style berets to New Yorker readers and handkerchiefs to Louis Armstrong, sailed with Hemingway, drank tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, summited 50 peaks, ran 27 marathons, and was unfailingly courteous to everyone he met.
An essay in Oregon Humanities about the difference between travel and escape. “My two years in London had earned me half a dozen new stamps in my passport; Madina’s exile to Portland had cost her a daughter.”
An intermittent travelogue of recent trips to Haiti.