L’Aquila: The Deployment that Wasn’t

We went into Italy to see if the affected population needed our help, and they don’t. So there won’t be an EDV deployment in Italy.Part of me is sad, but I keep shushing that part as one hushes a child asking slightly embarrassing questions. This is the ambulance chasing, adrenaline junky that I suspect exists [...]

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A Gentle Monday Morning Post…

Pictures are always gentle… Hand mixing cement to pour columns in a school in Pisco, Peru, which was devastated by an 8.0 earthquake in August 2007. That’s me with the dreads.

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This is the view off the roof in Piso, Peru. which was devastated by an 8.0 earthquake in August, 2007. It amazes me how beautiful a disaster zone can be.

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In Pisco, where I worked in two post earthquake reconstruction projects. I lived in a tent on the roof of our house. At night, I climbed a latter to get to bed and in the morning I woke up to the screaming roosters the locals kept for cock fighting. I brushed my teeth sitting with [...]

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Welcome to my blog. I’ve never blogged before, so bear with me as I figure out how this site (which the entire world seemed to recomend) works. That said, blogging should come naturally. I’m a fiction writing major and media director so if it doesn’t, I’m in trouble. As it says in the “Who’s Writing [...]

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