THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL STORY SWAP: CONNECTING STUDENTS IN NEW ORLEANS AND PORT-AU-PRINCE
All Story Swaps begin the same way…Tell me something about you. Tell me a story so compelling that after hearing it, I’ll know you better. Then, I’ll take your story and recreate it as if it were my own. It’s a most elemental start [...]

When I was in my late teens, I wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey asking her if she could fly my parents to Paris for their 22nd wedding anniversary. I imagine mine was one of thousands of such letters she received, like novenas from all corners of the globe.
I told her about that letter, during [...]