February 4, 2013
How Things Might Be
The seed and plant catalogs are starting to show up in my snow-covered mailbox.…
January 30, 2013
Berkley Hills Community Church Visits Makochon
Starfysh was just paid a visit by a high energy group from Berkley Hills…
January 25, 2013
Water Filters Installed
Thank you to all our Starfysh supporters who generously donated to our campaign…
December 20, 2012
Looking Forward
It has been just two years since the birth of Starfysh, a grassroots movement…
July 31, 2012
Thin Places in Haiti
We had a great time at the ballpark the other day: Tigers v. White Sox in a…
January 24, 2012
The Suffering I See
I stop in at International Aid every so often, to see if they can help me with…
January 18, 2012
Superheroes Incognito
I ran across Spider-Man the other day (I didn’t know superheroes lived on La…
January 16, 2012
Starfysh Publishes Haitian Creole Early Reader
After nearly a year of preparation, translating, and illustrating, Starfysh is…
January 10, 2012
A Solar Hospital: This is the Vision. This is the Goal.
The final architectural drawings have been completed for a sorely-needed…
December 17, 2011
A More Realistic Rendition
Saturday morning. It snowed last night. Christmas tree is lit. I'm on my…
December 2, 2011
Howdy Partner
I have progress to report, along with a challenge for those interested in…
October 25, 2011
If It’s Glamour We’re After…
I suppose it's a bit unreasonable to think that in these hard economic times…
October 6, 2011
It’s Both/And
Well, after a year of planning, we were finally able to start a program of…
August 14, 2011
Buying Presence
The catch-22 is this: on the one hand we want so badly to be about the work…
July 9, 2011
We Will Invest in Gardens
I have always loved gardening. Don't know why, particularly, just always have.…
July 7, 2011
Trou-a-L’Eau
Out there in the distance is Trou-a-L'Eau (pronounced Twa-loo), a tiny, remote…
June 26, 2011
The Unglamorous Dirty Work
I spent awhile in the cholera hospital last week. There were about a dozen…