The first two months of 2018 have been quite interesting for me as I've been hit with a case of fatigue and lethargy which are both exacerbated by a bad case of insomnia. Two very important…
Recently, I lost my cousin to cancer. It was a first in my family, for us to lose someone who was part of my generation. Her name was Keisha and she was like a big…
We have a way of mistitling and misrepresenting the people in our lives. We mistakenly call some 'friends', 'day ones', 'girlfriend', 'boyfriend', 'Bae' - all in the name of placement and proximity. The truth is,…
As 2016 drew to a close, I made a promise to myself that I was going to make 2017 memorable. I was going to make myself so proud! At that point, in December last year,…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas! Festive, colourful, filled with religious symbolism and a spendthrift’s playground. The Christmas season always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, because I grew up spending…
This is not a slash and burn post. I am not telling you to identify and remove these people from your life. Acknowledging that the following people are in your life doesn’t mean that your…
Life is short, and there are so many things that we are forced to do daily. Be it for work or some other obligation. So why not take some time to do something that YOU…
Many of us Jamaicans have been so convinced that we live in a scammer’s paradise that we put our guards down when we travel. Let’s admit it, some Jamaicans are ingenious and get up to…
I’ve often pondered some of the reasons I’ve decided not to have children, or in the Jamaica parlance pertaining to men and children “get any.” One of my reasons was pretty blunt – children are…
After watching that video of the partly naked mother, viciously beating her daughter with a machete on Sunday, (reported on here) I was part amused and mostly dismayed. I was amused because the dang dog reminded…