From January 18, 2021 I didn’t have way of much to offer you in today’s Journal…outside of Robinson, our security guard, showing me a video from a surveillance camera that showed a car pulling up to the sidewalk at night and kidnapping a woman.

From January 17, 2021 On Wednesday, Izzy (Isnaida) told me that her birthday would be on Friday. She used the Creole word for cake, which I understood. I told her I would get her a cake.

From January 16, 2021 Just around the corner from the hospital I saw this burned-out hulk of the cab of a garbage truck which had been torched by protesters. Across the street the garbage was piled high.