Category: Haitian history

  • Patrons wanted – help grow my work!

    With the advice and help of some friends, I am now listed on Patreon as a content creator. If you’re unfamiliar, Patreon is sort of the digital equivalent of the fan clubs people my age and older were part of when we were younger. In return for monthly support of an artist, patrons receive perks…

  • Well….that was a really short month. HAITIAN VODOU available NOW!

    This morning, one of my sons in Vodou contacted me saying that Amazon had sent a shipping notice for his pre-ordered copy of Haitian Vodou. Since I’d been told that our release date was February 8, and all the various websites also had that date on them, and since I also hadn’t gotten all the…

  • One more month! HAITIAN VODOU is on the way….

    In a month, Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition, releases. I got two copies of the book in the mail yesterday, and have to say that it looks far better than I’d even imagined it would. Thank you so very much to Elysia, Nicole, Adrienne, and everybody who made it what it…

  • Remembering the Cutting – 1937’s “Parsley Massacre”

    I mention this event briefly in Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition, but it deserves far more space and publicity than it received there. Most people living in the Western world, when asked about genocide, immediately think of the Holocaust (HaShoah), or perhaps more recent “ethnic cleansing” campaigns carried out in various…