haiti

As editorial director here at Wend, my inbox tends to overflow with updates from contributors with whom I’ve worked over the years to develop stories for the magazine—reminders that on Mondays in particular seem to say, “hey,  while you’re sitting there staring at your laptop working on the next issue,… Read the rest

Apparently even astronauts are tweeting these days, and unlike some of the idiots out there who think everyone cares that they just ate a sandwich, the folks outside of Earth’s orbit actually have something awesome to show us.
One such astronaut, Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi, has been sending images from… Read the rest

When seven year old Charlie Simpson saw the grim  images of post-earthquake Haiti on television he reacted as most children his age would: he broke down and cried. But instead of begging his mother to change the station, the young bicycling aficionado asked how he could help. To date the… Read the rest

The whole world’s eyes are on Haiti now, as the poorest country in the Americas faces yet another devastating disaster. Death toll has now reached over 200,000 at Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. These numbers are still increasing as survivors are losing patience with the painfully slow process of getting international… Read the rest