From the monthly archives:

March 2004

On Marriage and Family

25 March 2004

You learn something new every day. I would never have guessed how sacred a tradition marriage was to the Bahamian psyche until this past week or so, when the institution discovered more apologists than it can truly handle. I wouldn’t talk about the family. All of a sudden we Bahamians are champions of marriage and [...]

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On Patronage

18 March 2004

In the opening of the film The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone is visited by Johnny Fantone, a young singer who is trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. Don Corleone has already helped Johnny to get where he is in Las Vegas, having made his band leader the offer he couldn’t refuse. Now [...]

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On Art and Truth

11 March 2004

Ours is a society of liars. Now before you throw down the paper in disgust and pick up the phone to call your local hit man for me, stop a minute. I’m not talking about the everyday kind of lie, the “my-dog-ate-my-homework” or “no-you-gave-me-a-twenty-not-a-fifty” kind of lie. I’m talking about something far more fundamental than [...]

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On the Passing of Good Men

1 March 2004

The death of Brent Malone this week not only shocked me, but shook me. He was too young, for one thing. And for another, he was too special. Those feelings are absurd, of course, and extremely personal. Death is the one thing that does not discriminate. No one is too young, too special, too bad, [...]

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