Australia Ten years ago I was in Australia, near Melbourne, with people who had lived through a nightmare. The Kinglake…
How to help in disasters Trust is everything. You can move at the speed of trust. Perform within the container…
(part of a series from the “Shipwrecked Project”) There are many definitions of a hard childhood. By any definition Mario…
UPDATE: 47 deaths thus far I am in awe of the scale of hubris, greed and neglect that produced this…
(We’re sick of this damn virus) In the aftermath of disaster there are discernible patterns — stages of thought, behavior and emotions.…
I am thinking of some of my most treasured relationships. People in Louisiana. Friends and family. Many Louisiana friends are…
“There is a crack in everything. It’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen About twelve years ago I began…
Some of us are in professions that require the taking of an oath. We ask it of doctors, of soldiers,…
Anti-fragility We woke up today to a story about the people we elected using their knowledge of what was coming…
One of the oldest stories in the world is the story of displacement. Upended lives. Mass migrations. Wholesale disruptions of…