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I picked Turks and Caicos based on proximity only – I didn’t have a lot of time off between work trips to Costa Rica and Mexico that were happening in the same year, and I didn’t want to fly too far away from Virginia to require an adjustment to a time difference or deal with jet lag. This trip would just be four days, a shorter one than I was accustomed to planning. Maybe for that reason, it was also one in which I seemed to have forgotten my personal rules of behavior whenever out of the country without a trusted partner.

Due to our eviction from the previous evening, we moved the bus to our friend Becka’s house in the Garden District, where we are able to enjoy the pleasures of indoor plumbing and the World Wide Interweb. On Monday morning we woke up early again, and walked around a nearby cemetery looking for zombies and discussing serious issues like “Do you think vampires ever get tricked by an eclipse?”.

VCU-TV/HD turns its lens toward Richmond, Virginias favorite used book store, Chop Suey. Owner Ward Teft gives an inside look at what makes this store so loved and adored by the community. Used books and fresh starts.

In May 2016, when I heard the news of the doctors’ strike taking place in Haiti, my heart sank. Doctors, nurses and medical residents had been on strike since March as they protested low wages and demanded better working conditions, leading to the shutdown of Haiti’s largest hospitals. And now, as the news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew floods in from Haiti, ever more families need access to health care and medicine as quickly as possible.

Oxfam, one of the UK’s largest and best known charities, is currently entangled in a scandal following revelations that senior staff members engaged in sexual misconduct during the 2010 Haiti earthquake recovery effort and had hired prostitutes while working in Chad in 2006. The report revealed that aid workers held sex parties, turning a villa rented by Oxfam into a makeshift brothel, with senior officers allegedly attempting to cover up the behavior.

Shelley: So, do we want to hear the real story first or do we want to hear the myth?

Anna: I want to hear the myth first. I mean, the lore will probably be funnier. 

Randy: Well, it’s not too in depth, and forgive me if I am wrong, it was many years ago. but I thought it was Tony [Foresta] and maybe you [motions to Shelley] and your sister [Erin] went to Hadad’s [Lake] one day and got wasted, and called it Best Friends Day.

It’s five a.m., and in an hour, I am leaving for the airport to fly to Florida from Virginia to visit my friend Barb. Three weeks ago, Barb’s husband, Dick, passed away suddenly, and both Barb and I, and so many others, are devastated by this loss. Like Barb, Dick was also a close friend of mine. They are so well known to me that I actually wrote a book, The House of Life, about their lives. It was published 10 years ago, in 2016.