“The breaking of a wave cannot explain a whole sea”

For me the sea has always been where I turn for inspiration, solace, and wonder.  The night I was born I breathed thick salt air and first heard the sound of long Pacific swells rolling onto whispering sand, and from that day my life was held forever in the sea’s net of wonders.  My mom […]

“Say that he loved old ships…”

Ah, the Asilo…one of the places we heard about here in Panama when we were still in Honduras. We found a unit seldom visited by a doctor (in a year), but with a wonderful staff of no more than a cook, cleaner and nurse on each of the two 8 hour day shifts and 2 […]

Out of Haiti and South to Bocas del Toro, Panama

Bocas del Toro, Panama As always, leaving Haiti was difficult.  There is always a sense of leaving things unfinished, no matter how many patients you see or projects you complete.  I always tell people, we are not going to go help Haiti.  That is beyond our power…but we went to help HAITIANS, and helped many.  […]