Day-cation: Ft. Lauderdale
For many, the Fourth of July serves as the official commencement of the summer season. Though with the recession, unemployment and gas prices at a record highs, consumers are feeling more than just a pinch to their pockets and instead sharing their experience of a few Lennox Lewis punches and Bruce Lee kicks to their finances. This […]
A Conversation with Jamaican golfer Carl Whyte, from the reality show “Big Break Indian Wells”
This week we have a conversation with Jamaican golfer Carl Whyte, who is currently a contestant on the Golf Channel’s reality show “Big Break Indian Wells”. Carl hails from Manchester Jamaica and was a track athlete representing Jamaica during high school. He moved to the United States in 1997 on a track scholarship. Carl no […]
Book Review: Marcus and the Amazons
About the Book: After traveling through the forest, Marcus returns to his home and discovers that Amazons have enslaved his colony and imprisoned Princess Amy, his bride-to-be. With the help of his friends from the forest, Marcus must save Princess Amy and rally his colony to stand against the Amazons. But during his stay in […]
Quotable Caribbean – June 28, 2011
“I therefore avail myself of the opportunity provided by this grand occasion to assure you, the OECS citizenry, of the absolute commitment of OECS Heads of Government to removing all restrictions to the Free Movement of OECS nationals throughout the Union by August of this year.” – Hon. Stephenson King, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia […]
The Friendship Hypocrisy
Recently a series of events have made me question much about the notion of friendship. At age 40, I thought I understood friendship and all that it entailed, but at age 40 is when you really begin to realize how little you know about so many things and realize that even though many of us […]
The Case for and against Big Love
So HBO has a series called Big Love which is about a family of polygamists. Now on the series, you get to see all the advantages and disadvantages of living in a blended polygamist family. The clear advantages to this situation is always having help with children. That alone is worth having a whole host […]
Addictions
In the last few weeks, I feel like the issues of weight are bombarding me on every side. In my attempt to get my weight back under control, I discovered an underlying health issue which I need to address and thankfully am able to do so with diet and vitamins. No matter what I ever […]
A Strong Today – Our job as parents
So being a parent right now is a bit challenging. The older children get is the more as a parent you are presented with challenges that you need to overcome. Raising children is both a life affirming as well as a tremendous learning experience. You learn to learn and think outside of yourself and its […]
"All That Glitters" – Interview with International Jewelry Designer Pascale Rowe
Her work reminisces the days for which true mavens of style long: The days of Garbo, Dietrich and Monroe . A time when a woman’s private quarters was only referenced as the “boudoir”; a party was not a party without champagne and Sinatra and a lady never acquired an item unless among the myriad of adjectives […]
We Can Cross It! – Big Up Clifton Brown, he is a hero in my book
When poor people in many countries like Jamaica ask their government for necessary amenities like good roads, clean drinking water, bridges or important community services that can make their lives better, they wait in vain and are often times humiliated or ridiculed, sometimes to get attention they must block roads and demonstrate to get the […]