“For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, If only we’re brave enough to be it” ~ Amanda Gorman. I don’t remember how I felt about mathematics as a child. When we moved to Jamaica, I started out in a small private ‘Prep’ school, and was doing well until I […]
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” ~ Octavia E. Butler. I was an avid reader as a child. Well, I guess I still am! But I remember in particular a book called ‘Swallows and Amazons’. It was a story of imagination, told from the point of view of a group […]
“Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.” ~ Dylan Thomas. Like most children raised in a Christian home, my encounters with death included the reassurance of heaven and an afterlife. Three of my four grandparents had died either before or soon after I was born, so I grew up only […]
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” ~ Gza. I never met my mother-in-law. She died in childbirth, tragically, leaving behind a husband and young children. My father-in-law I first met through letters and photographs, until I finally met him on my first trip back to Jamaica after many […]
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo. Many of us put a lot of thought into naming our children. Whether it is trying to find a name which has family significance, like naming a child after a grandparent, or to honor a culture, we forget what life will be […]
“You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!” ~ Sai Baba. By courtesy of being connected once more to the world wide web and one of its search engines, I learned something new […]
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ Saint Augustine. It is over sixty years since first I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, a child of almost eight, with my family. We were headed from the UK to Jamaica, to begin our life in a small town […]
“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” ~ Jimi Hendrix. My parents were sixteen and nineteen years old at the outbreak of World War II, and living in Liverpool, UK, a city which was the most heavily bombed outside of London. In […]
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” ~ H. G. Wells. I learned the term ‘code switch’ a few years ago, and found it quite appropriate. It describes the ability of many of us to change the way we communicate, according to our environment or our company. Since I thought I was the […]
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” ~ Desmond Tutu. I self-published my first book over ten years ago, but I had been writing for years before that. At first it was handwritten in blank, unlined journals, writing down impressions of my travels, a few crappy poems, […]
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