Category: Random Acts of Kindness

  • Introducing The #MarriageMilitia Project

    NOTE: the project listed here is now live and has its own website. Thank you! My readers either went to bed last night or woke up to news about the transition of government in my country. We have a new president-elect and Congress that are all from the same party for the first time in…

  • Thank you 17,144 times. And thank you, Dad.

    When I called my mother last night, shortly before Neil Gaiman re-Tweeted my Kickstarter link and my social media blew up, she said: “I think you’ll get 17. Dad’s birthday is June 17th.” I laughed at her. We were at $13K at the time, and that itself was astonishing to me. I never thought this…

  • Haiti Reads – And You Can Help

    A few days ago, I was contacted on my Facebook page for my Haitian/Haitian Vodou work by a woman who is the founder of Haiti Reads, an organization that runs a library and school for students in Carrefour, Haiti. We got to talking, and I offered to donate one of my Haitian Vodou books to…