The stories I hear in Jaffa are heart wrenching. They hide behind the surfeit of activity that define the surface of this town. Underneath there are stories that are not fathomable.
Adele Barker | Posted 05.25.2011
Kids squealed with delight just feet from impromptu graveyards erected just days after December 26, 2004. It is a mixture of heartbreak and hope, joy tempered on this island by the memory of a past much too recent to die.
Adele Barker | Posted 05.25.2011
Peace has come to the north of this war torn country. It's a very different place than it was three years ago when I was here.
Adele Barker | Posted 05.25.2011
I returned to Sri Lanka for eight months after the tsunami to work on my book about the island Not Quite Paradise. I thought I had finished the book in 2004, but then the wave hit. And everything changed.
Adele Barker | Posted 05.25.2011
We are fourteen hours into the New Year as I write this. I've been thinking a lot recently about what the future holds for Sri Lanka.
Adele Barker | Posted 05.25.2011