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# Mike Richwine Blog

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- [From my new book: On Writing at 80 a one page checklist](https://richwineblog.com/2026/08/10/from-my-new-book-on-writing-at-80-a-one-page-checklist/)
- [TEASER: From the new book NOW PUBLISHED - ON WRITING at 80](https://richwineblog.com/2026/07/14/teaser-from-the-new-book-coming-out-on-writing-at-80/) - The Thirteen Minute Guide You bought this book because you want to know how a seventy-nine-year-old first-time novelist wrote two novels totaling more than 160,000 words and published them in less than six months. Fair enough. I'll give you the short version first. Everything else in this book simply slows down and explains these same
- [Speech - On Writing at 80](https://richwineblog.com/2026/06/07/speech-on-writing-at-80/) - On Writing at 80 Given on 6/3/26 I want to start by reading a story. It's the scene that started all of this — the first thing I wrote that made me think: maybe there's a book here. These stories trace back to Speedway, Indiana, in 1960. Over the next thirty years, they came little
- [Flash Fiction - It's Not Hot description Writers workshop](https://richwineblog.com/2026/06/07/flash-fiction-its-not-hot-description-writers-workshop/) - Writers Workshop flash fiction Mike Richwine 5.29.26. 500 words Introduction: I have become interested in flash fiction recently. Flash fiction is a form of storytelling that attempts to create a complete emotional experience in very few words. Sometimes it is a few hundred words. Sometimes it is only a sentence. The reader is asked to
- [We arrived in Haiti](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/we-arrived-inhaiti-2/)
- [Snorkeling and photos](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/12/snorkeling-and-photos/) - Another beautiful day in Belize ( yes I missed a day posting) . Not as windy, but hotter. Normally the sun rises behind a marine layer, but clears out to a beautiful sunny day with a light breeze - 12 mph. I went on a half day snorkel with about 8 people on a boat
- [Windy but great](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/10/windy-but-great/) - Good morning Another day in paradise lots of wind 25-35 mph keeps tours of water! Sunny all day great temp - 82 degrees -t Menu - Belizean dollars. 2x1
- [Monday](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/16/monday/) -  SUNSET walking 6 blocks across town you reach the west side of SanPedro and the island the western side toward Belize city has lagoons and very few sand beaches the eastern side is all beaches and Reef 
- [6th day is Friday?](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/13/6th-day-friday/) - Finally decompressing enough to get more adventurous. While I understand weather is great in Chicago, it is beautiful here 77-84* sometimes windy, but enough to keep you comfortable. I spent the day reading and in the sun then went swimming and ended up at Palapa bar to great music, sing and dancing! everything
- [Slow day -a bit rainy](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/14/slow-day-a-bit-rainy/) - Spent the day reading by the beach, ducking the brief rain squalls Everything here is very quiet . this is the first “off” season week (after Easter). Streets are virtually empty at night.
- [Secret Beach and Overseas bar](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/15/secret-beach-and-overseas-bar/) - Beautiful day at Secret Beach. A bone rattling (rough on back and neck fusions). Rental cart feels every small and speed bump. After a 45 minute trip (3miles) you feel very shaken but stirred by the beautiful beach and crystal water. Open up this night photo moon above! IMG_0752 Mike Nash song SAYS IT
- [Big Night - Hermit crab races](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/17/big-nite-hermit-crab-races/) - As you can tell, maybe two weeks of paradise can get a bit slow. Debbies youngest sister Ellen passed away after many years battling MS . May she rest in peace. Nauti Crab bar. Run by a self professed “fat white guy with a microphone from Ohio”. The blue humor and his crab race calling
- [Cacophony of Belize and serenity](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/18/cacophony-of-belize-and-serenity/) - E The twelve mile long Island of Ambergris Caye sits 20 miles offshore from Belize. The island is protected by a barrier reef system, the meso American reef system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Barrier_Reef_System this reef runs all along the 180 mile eastern border of Belize. The protected reef is about 1/2 mile from our shore and provides tranquil
- [Last day in Belize](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/19/last-day-in-belize/) - Thursday night, I just hung around our little Conch shell Inn. The B&B / hotel has just 12 units and is sandwiched between two bars and on the beach. The place is owned by someone in CA and run by Vivian, like more of a den mother. Very sweet and vivacious. She and her two
- [Last day from Belize a surprise](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/20/last-day-from-belize-a-surprise/) - My last night I decided to splurge and have a fancy Belizean seafood meal. I went to Anglers Seafood house. I ordered their special and it was great. I was alone in the restaurant until a gentleman walked in and sat next to me. I invited him to join me and he did. He turned
- [No, The Horse.  A Short Story](https://richwineblog.com/2026/02/26/no-the-horse-a-short-story-2/) - In November 2025, before either novel was fully underway, I wrote this scene based on a story told to me years earlier. The names Mary Ellen and Chester (Chet) Rawlins were already forming, though I did not yet understand how large their lives on the page would become. This short piece became the foundation for
- [Cowboy Poets](https://richwineblog.com/2026/02/27/cowboy-poets-2/) - A Saturday in Bastrop – Cowboy Poetry There aren’t many events left where the main attractions are folding chairs, acoustic guitars, and people who know how to coil a rope properly. So naturally, I drove to Bastrop. It was the first year of the Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Bastrop, scheduled back-to-back with a
- [I made it](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/21/i-made-it/) - Well the dry season lied. Torrential rain made the nice dugout ride from the village of San Pedro to the Farm, a wet, muddy 2hr trip. Everything is soaked!
- [Shout out to Randy Welch my buddy and hero](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/12/shout-out-to-randy-welch-my-buddy-and-hero/) - newest back operation doing well!
- [Valentine's Day at paddle Hut](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/15/valentines-day-at-paddle-hut/) - Paddle at 8 degrees love CHICAGO. ChIcargo
- [a dog tale](https://richwineblog.com/2025/10/06/a-dog-tale/) - REHOME by Mike Richwine I love dogs, and dogs love me. I have often said that dogs, children, and mothers like me at first meeting … Growing up with dogs my earliest remembrances are of our dog Gretchen who was a long-haired red dachshund. Auburn hair down from her short legs and long torso made
- [My Summer Ballet](https://richwineblog.com/2025/10/06/elementor-2019/) - My summer ballet….By Mike Richwine The summers of ‘66 and’ 67 while attending Indiana University, I had one of the most imprinted experiences I have ever had that I have never talked about. While many stories have been told of the early heavy-industrial life[1]I do not believe there has been a story of a skinny 19
- [Quiet Wealth](https://richwineblog.com/2025/11/04/quiet-wealth/) - Personal wealth By mike Richwine 10/20/2025 As someone who has spent a lifetime in real estate, I’m continually amazed by the sheer wealth evident in the U.S. vacation home market. Who owns these homes, and where does their wealth come from? First as a banker, mortgage banker, national retail property expert, I’ve completed over 300
- [An interview with a witch](https://richwineblog.com/2025/11/17/an-interview-with-a-witch/) - + Mike Richwine Word count -1425 Interview with a Witch Belize Arrival What did I get myself into? I’m standing beside a river in the middle of a Mayan jungle at eleven o’clock at night, in a hot rainstorm — the kind that dries on your face but soaks your clothes. The only light
- [Reading for the turn](https://richwineblog.com/2025/12/27/elementor-2076/) - — the em dash I’ve always read sentences aloud in my head. Even when I’m skimming. Especially then. Rhythm gives things away long before meaning does. Some sentences want to stop. Others want to turn. I’ve learned to trust the turn. That’s probably why I like writing with em dashes. They don’t trail off. They
- [Time as a Thing](https://richwineblog.com/2026/01/28/time-as-a-thing/) - Time as a Thing If time were a thing—would it be red, blue, green, yellow, black, or clear? Solid, hollow, thin, short, or tall? Could you see through it— see the back of it, look at it from the side, see it from the top, from the bottom? Would it be straight? Twisty? Upside down?
- [Getting over the shock](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/09/getting-over-the-shock/) - OF BEING HERE - go slow is the island’s motto. While those who know me would never describe me as “fast”, I would change the motto to “go less chaotic” I don’t know a proper antonym for chaotic - I guess that it is “orderly” that certainly doesn’t fit for me! ”Chaotic good means you
- [Belize  - interactive map - zoom in](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/08/belize-interactive-map-zoom-in/) - Belize is a wonderful country with diverse climates and some of the most wonderful beaches and water in the world. The underpopulated country - 350,000 population is English speaking and works off a US dollar dominated economy. The former British Honduras has a history dated all the way back to the Paleo-Indians, Maya Indians, Spanish
- [Belize - Poor man’s Acapulco](https://richwineblog.com/2024/05/08/belize-poor-mans-acapulco/) - My first day was what I hoped for - quiet and beautiful. With two weeks to this tiny Island of Ambergris Caye is 15 nautical miles north of Belize City. The island is about 25 miles long and 1 mile wide! About 1/2 mile to the east of San Pedro in the Caribbean, is a
- [I made it to Belize](https://richwineblog.com/2024/04/07/i-made-it-to-belize/) - remarkable! I left a dreary, cold Chicago at 10 am and was on the beach in Belize at 4Pm. I reached my Inn - Conch Shell Inn, by way of a water taxi from the Belize airport. I took an empty United direct flight that took only 4 hours. It was a bit late -
- [Dementia caused by hearing loss?](https://richwineblog.com/2024/01/24/dementia-caused-by-hearing-loss/) - anoying, but does Hearing loss cause Dementia?
- [Hearing Tests online vs Audiologist](https://richwineblog.com/2023/02/11/hearing-tests-online-vs-audiologist/) - OTC hearing tests work
- [OVER THE COUNTER (otc) HEARING AIDS](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/28/over-the-counter-otc-hearing-aids/) - Here is the story of OTC hearing Aids
- [Best in the Business](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/26/best-in-the-business/) - Over $1.8 billion in sales in 2022 they did it without me
- [Choosing a broker](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/24/tinnitus-causes-dementia-2/) - **Commercial** real estate brokers are a strange breed, but they are licensed the same as **Residential** brokers.
- [Net Lease](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/24/net-lease/) - “There is no such thing as a ‘Net’ Lease”. If someone tells you they have a “net” lease for sale, call bull….., and **check your back pocket*
- [$85 hearing aids](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/16/85-hearing-aids/) - #post_excerptIf you are one of the typical Americans who wait 10 years after noticing a hearing loss, you might try these out. For $85 you can’t go wrong! You might hear some birds you didn’t hear before. (Happy thought)
- [Don’t shade me - I’m Hard of Hearing  - Apple Ashamed?](https://richwineblog.com/2023/01/12/airpod-hearing-aid/) - **_Apple AirPod Pros are the best and cheapest Hearing aids out there for the occasional user._** Apple embarrassed?, Hard of Hearing?, Embarrassing
- [OTC hearing aids Disruptive](https://richwineblog.com/2022/12/29/history/) - OTC hearing aids are disruptive At least we hope they disrupt the existing market and make hearing aids affordable to the level where people buy them and use them. Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen coined the term disruptive technology. In his 1997 best-selling book, "The Innovator's Dilemma", Christensen separates new technology into two
- [dementia caused by hearing loss?](https://richwineblog.com/2022/12/29/dementia-2/) - Dementia caused by hearing loss/Tinnitus? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing (annoying isn’t it?) My quick story is that I have Tinnitus “ringing of the ears” and went to the big Hospital affiliated ENT doctor after waiting three months to get an appointment! This was in 2019. After an hour sitting the the waiting room, I was ushered into
- [OTC hearing aids](https://richwineblog.com/2022/12/26/otc-hearing-aids/) - OVER THE COUNTER You have heard a lot about self-fitting hearing aids - here is the story While hearing devices have been around for the millennium, ie hearing horns, only in the last century have they become objects of commerce. Led by, (for some reason or other) several large Nordic companies, five Multinational
- [Tinnitus Causes Dementia?](https://richwineblog.com/2022/12/17/tinnitus-causes-dementia/) - Hearing Loss causes Dementia? Annoyance or terminal? On my first visit to a specialist about my Tinnitus I was told by my ENT that if I did not get hearing aids my chance of Dementia increases -** and oh-by-the-way, we can’t do anything for Tinnitus!!!! And oh – by the way we can fix you Tinnitus and hearing loss cause dementia?
- [Airpods as hearing aids?](https://richwineblog.com/2020/04/09/airpods-as-hearing-aids/) - Apple AirPods as Hearing Aids Are they really hearing aids or tricked up earphones? Since 2021 and IOS14, Apple Air Pods have offered “Transparency mode”, which allows outside sound to pass through the occluded earphone and be amplified or masked. Once they allowed sound to be passed through - someone said - **Isn’t this what
- [Golf - Robert Trent Jones Trail - brother JIM](https://richwineblog.com/2016/12/04/golf-robert-trent-jones-trail-brother-jim/) - Robert Trent Jones Trail - Alabama
- [Dish washing station](https://richwineblog.com/2015/03/22/dish-washing-station/) - Mike Richwine 847.530.0994 Mike Richwine 847.530.0994 Sent from my iPad
- [Inside my cabin at night.](https://richwineblog.com/2015/03/22/inside-my-cabin-at-night/) - Mosquito netting is good! Mike Richwine 847.530.0994 Mike Richwine 847.530.0994 Sent from my iPad
- [Source of Columbia River](https://richwineblog.com/2015/03/22/source-of-columbia-river/) - Our hike to the source found this amazing spectacle – this has been bubbling up to form the Columbia River for thousands of years! Mike Richwine847.530.0994Mike Richwine847.530.0994Sent from my iPad
- [I made it back – I will be posting photos here – Arrival at Maya Mountain Research Farm](https://richwineblog.com/2015/03/16/i-made-it-back-i-will-be-posting-photos-here-arrival-at-maya-mountain-research-farm-3/) - Getting to the Maya Mountain Research Farm required a two hour flight to Houston, two hour flight to Belize City, one and a half hours of a puddle jumper with four stops, a hour ride to Columbia San Pedro village, a hour dugout canoe ride in the pouring rain, and dragging my soaked luggage up
- [Last night at the Farm](https://richwineblog.com/2015/03/04/last-night-at-the-farm/) - Tonight is the last night at MMRF. I am looking forward to home. For some reason the Internet is up, but tomorrow and Friday I should be in a hotel room with real Internet and a shower! I will send along some of the journal I have been keeping and more photos. This place is
- [Not everyone pays attention](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/28/not-everyone-pays-attention/) - Mike Richwine
- [Dr. Arzu Mountain Spirit](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/28/dr-arzu-mountain-spirit/) - http://www.arzumountainspirit.com great story, wonderful person Garifuna. Mike Richwine
- [Classroom](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/28/classroom/) - Mike Richwine
- [Sitting on a "tourist" tree](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/28/sitting-on-a-tourist-tree/) - Mike Richwine
- [Not all hot and dirty](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/28/not-all-hot-and-dirty/) - . Lemon chiffon tort. Great pastry guy Mike Richwine
- [The source of the Columbia river](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/27/the-source-of-the-columbia-river/) - We may have had a breakthrough on the Internet. Nope, no phots are loading I made it thru a week, dirtiest place I have ever been to, but totally fascinating. I will share more when I can
- [Furry friends](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/24/furry-friends/) - Mike Richwine
- [Photo posting at maya mountain farm](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/23/photo-posting-at-maya-mountain-farm/) - I understand photos are being posted at. Mmrfbz.org Mike Richwine
- [Permaculture class category belize](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/23/permaculture-class-category-belize/) - This mornings class is about bee keeping, And planning zones. This course designation is a Permaculture Design Course. PDC. Needless to say that most discussions about plants are "food forest plantings" not annual horticulture. Mike Richwine
- [Monday from Belize](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/23/monday-from-belize/) - Good morning. The rains stopped yesterday and it is gorgeous- not wet. Weather looks dry rest of time. Our first two days go like this: up at 6:30 - no shower - stop by dry-composting toilet - more about that later, to the meeting area for breakfast. Breakfast today is great with croissant like biscuits
- [Testing post from email](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/21/testing-post-from-email/) - The broadband is too narrow to work well through wordpress. I am trying this Mike Richwine
- [About Belize](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/17/about-belize/) - Belize is a wonderful country with diverse climates and some of the most wonderful beaches and water in the world. The underpopulated country - 350,000 population is English speaking and works off a US dollar dominated economy. The former British Honduras has a history dated all the way back to the Paleo-Indians, Maya Indians, Spanish
- [LED wavelengths for Indoor grow lighting.](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/17/led-wavelengths-for-indoor-grow-lighting/) - As stated in previous blogs, the major problem with LED lighting is that we have too many choices. Because LEDs are manufactured light imitators, we have to choose the correct spectrums that plants want during their grow cycles. One of the best articles I have read is one by Dwayne Kula, one of the principals
- [Haiti photos](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/15/haiti-photos/)
- [Permaculture Design & Starhawk](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/12/starhawk-eat/) - As i said in my Permaculture page, the area is full of "edge" people - one of the beliefs of Permaculture is that the edge of ecosystems is where all of the diversity and new plants are grown. I believe it is also so in our society. I look forward to meeting and working with
- [Photos from Milwaukee FS](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/11/photos-from-milwaukee-fs/)
- [What am I doing here?](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/11/what-am-i-doing-here/) - Maya Mountain Research Farm is two miles upstream in a dugout canoe from San Pedro Columbia, Toledo, Belize zoom in or out to see where Belize is - zoom in and you wont find any beaches or cities where we are. [wpgmza id="1"]
- [Milwaukee FS](https://richwineblog.com/2015/02/09/milwaukee-fs/) - IMG_0063 click on this link Laverne & Shirley? I don't think so. Road trip
- [School work](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/22/school-work/) - When I came by this door, his young mother was over him working on his studies she did not want to be in the photo Mike Richwine
- [Today's photos](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/22/todays-photos-2/) - Washing carrots and onions For Tom Rogers Haitian saddle Typical scene Mike Richwine
- [Final thoughts from Haiti](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/22/final-thoughts-from-haiti/) - Dear friends, I made it! We had the last day at the clinic today and i think we finished up! By that, i mean that we finished what we could. Half an hour after we came in, the monsoon started and it is lightening and thundering hard. It was loudly exclaimed that thank goodness that
- [Tues morning - last day](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/22/tues-morning-last-day/) - Good morning from Haiti. Today looks like another beautiful day in Haiti. We are all up early and looking forward to a very busy day at the Clinic. Striking camp is not quite the term I am looking for, but we have to get the clinic and supply room in order to be closed down
- [Good news!](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/21/good-news/) - There was warm water for my Haitian shower. Bad news, The power went out and I showered in the dark! A Haitian shower consists of filling a plastic tub, about the circumference of my feet, ankle deep with water -hot or cold. Then you take a scoop and wet down your body - turn your
- [The gang](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/21/the-gang/) - "Crazy scrubs day". Exciting huh? Mike Richwine
- [Bonjou from Haiti: An Update from Team 20](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/21/bonjou-from-haiti-an-update-from-team-20/) - Post from Vanda March Mike Richwine
- [Cacophony](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/21/cacophony/) - Cacophony Cacophony is on of my favorite words. it sometimes means harsh, discordant mixture of sounds, but here it describes several things. Last Friday evening the house was full. All 26 of us were here in groups talking, laughing, playing this dice game called Farkle, I am taking my Hatian Shower, and I can hear
- [More photos](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/more-photos-2/) - [categories Haiti] Sent from my iPad
- [today's photos](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/todays-photos/) - [categories Haiti] Sent from my iPad
- [Hope this works.](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/hope-this-works/) - Tom Bonnel eat your heart out. This was very moving for me Sent from my iPad
- [More photos](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/more-photos/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Wonderful people](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/wonderful-people/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Village of Gramothe](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/village-of-gramothe/) - Village above the school , church,and clinic. They have water gravity fed from a waterfall in the mountains above Sent from my iPad
- [Inside clinic](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/inside-clinic/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Fine Sunday clothing](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/fine-sunday-clothing/) - I have found sending one photo at a time is best. A lot of my posts are getting "lost" Sent from my iPad
- [Inside guesthouse](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/inside-guesthouse/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Church](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/church/) - Changing to their good shoes for church Sent from my iPad
- [Our ride uo to church](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/our-ride-uo-to-church/) - Didn't walk up in our finest Sent from my iPad
- [Guess what this is](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/guess-what-this-is/) - .................. The male part of the banana plant! Sent from my iPad
- [From behind church](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/from-behind-church/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Clinic interior](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/clinic-interior/) - Mike Richwine
- [The village above the Church/school/village](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/the-village-above-the-churchschoolvillage/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Sunday morning](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/20/sunday-morning/) - [categories Haiti] I have inserted this as the house is scurrying around in anticipation of the arrival of a 10 month old baby (somewhere between 8 & 10, ) Baby Samual , who has a very distended belly. He is from the Orphanage. We saw him yesterday and he had an X-ray, (as a result
- [19 October, 2013 15:21](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/19/19-october-2013-1521/) - [categories Haiti] Mike Richwine
- [Haiti](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/18/haiti/) - [categories Haiti] Line up for the clinic After finishing hike School grounds Waiting room- no facilities but a battery operated - sometimes - tv donated by Mulvihills Mike Richwine
- [day 3](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/18/day-3/) - I say day three because I already forget what day it is. The day has been sunny except for a few showers late in the afternoon, and the temperature up in the mountains - clinic is about 3,800 feet above sea level is very comfortable with a 3-5 mile per hour breeze. So the temp
- [First day at clinic](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/first-day-at-clinic-3/) - [categories Haiti] We arrived after dark last evening, and all is well. I tried to blog, but for some reason things are not working with the internet or just the broadband is just not broad enough. I opologize but I will try to get something worked out. I think it was trying to do it
- [First day at clinic](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/first-day-at-clinic-2/) - [categories Haiti] We arrived after dark last evening, and all is well. I tried to blog, but for some reason things are not working with the internet or just the broadband is just not broad enough. I opologize but I will try to get something worked out. I think it was trying to do it
- [photos from the clinic](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/photos-from-the-clinic/) - [categories Haiti] Sent from my iPad
- [the clinic](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/the-clinic/) - Sent from my iPad
- [the clinic is one side, the group home is on the other!](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/the-clinic-is-one-side-the-group-home-is-on-the-other/) - Sent from my iPad
- [Photos day one](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/photos-day-one/) - Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: MIKE RICHWINE Date: October 17, 2013 at 7:37:42 AM EDT To: Michael L Richwine Subject: Fwd: Photos day one Mike Richwine
- [We arrived inHaiti](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/we-arrived-inhaiti/)
- [2nd day test](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/17/2nd-day-test/) - test thurs Sent from my iPad
- [On my way](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/15/on-my-way/) - Out at 4 am tomorrow Mike Richwine
- [Little-By-Little - understanding prior to trip](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/14/little-by-little-understanding-prior-to-trip/) - This is what I know as I am preparing for the trip to Haiti I don't think this will fall into the category of Altruistic Tourists! I am going on a Medical Mission trip along with the Little-by-Little organization, who are a self-supported independent group of medical professionals who have been going to Haiti for
- [James Frederick Richwine 1/7/1915-1/9/2013](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/14/james-frederick-richwine-171915-192013/) - Our father passed away this January, two days after his 98th birthday. My sweet, gentle father was married for fifty eight years to my Mother - Mary Ellen Shelburn, and had two sons that he was very proud of, Jim and Mike (although I really did think he liked me better). Dad's passions were golfing,
- [Welcome to my Blog space](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/14/welcome-to-my-blog-space/) - In setting up a blog for my Haiti trip, I thought that it would be a simple task to set up a blog page and just get going. Two weeks later, this is as far as I have gotten. Buying a web site, adding WordPress for posting, adding Jetpack formatting, and setting up an e-mail
- [My understanding of Haiti prior to trip](https://richwineblog.com/2013/10/13/little-by-little/) - Haiti is part of the island of Hispaniola, between Cuba and Puerto Rico. (I was quite surprised by this - I still think Puerto Rico is somewhere around New York!) Haiti takes up about a third of the Island while the Dominical Republic the other. The country looks like a "mitt" of your right

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