Mirlande Jeanlouis is a freelance writer and the project coordinator for "Busted Borders" BustedHalo.com's immigration video blog. She is a native New Yorker and a recent graduate of Barnard College.

	January 15th, 2010 What If? A Busted Halo contributor with family in Haiti shares her thoughts Last September my mother returned to Haiti after a seven-year absence from her home country. It was a brief trip involving minor family matters and ...
	December 31st, 2009 Faithful Departed — Andy Hallett (1975 - 2009) Hallett during better timesI love a good rags-to-riches story. A vampire spin-off is not the usual definition of riches, ...
	December 31st, 2009 Faithful Departed — Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009) There are some famous people that seem so kind and so genuine that I am glad they are somewhere in the world. I don't need ...
	December 31st, 2009 Faithful Departed — Jim Carroll (1949 - 2009) It is impossible to create and not expose yourself. In fiction, music or memoir, there is the beating heart of the writer's own life experiences ...
	October 27th, 2009 Viewing America Through Michael Jackson A conversation on celebrity, race, pedophilia and the Church sex abuse scandal The sudden death of Michael Jackson this past summer took the world by surprise and led to spontaneous fan tributes around the globe and countless ...
	June 29th, 2009 Lorna Byrne and the Angels in Her Hair Talking with a modern day Irish mystic What if your closest friends were angels from Heaven? For one Irish mystic, that has been the truth since birth. Lorna Byrne describes a life ...
	March 30th, 2009 Jesus Stole My Best Friend When a friend's life is consumed with Christian group activity, resentment brews Twenty minutes after our agreed upon meeting time, my best friend Andrea rushed into the coffee shop smiling and apologetic. The devil on my left ...