Because you know you can

It's not my story to tell, so I'm not gonna tell it. It is a story that involves many characters, some I don't know, one I know and love very well, and I suppose a smattering of those that fall in the middle. Needless to say, someone very dear to me has had a traumatic upheaval, which has not only had a very big effect on her life but on someone very dear to her. While you can choose to see this as just one more situation in which I ask you for money, try to look at it as your opportunity to do something good.

If you have some time, please click here and read about her crazy/beautiful life. If you don't have time, you should make it. If you are exasperated at how little I write, if you are curious about Benin, about Peace Corps, about what its like to be an interesting person in an interesting place, you will very much enjoy your time inside her brain. (I've been meaning to point you her way for a while now. No time like the present.)

If you don't have time, just skip to here, and feel around in your heart, your wallet, your cup holders and couch cushions, and please help someone who truly needs it.

This is a crazy, insane, mixed-up, messed-up, darling, interesting place. Sometimes in a good way. Sometimes in a bad way. Sometimes to good people, sometimes to great people.