http://nicobethel.net/blogworld Nicolette Bethel's Blog Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And not knowing whether I will take part because I can barely keep up, but: There's a reading challenge going on this year that I'd like to alert people to, just in case. It's the Africa Reading Challenge: Participants commit to read - in the course of 2008 - six books that either ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/07/23/coming-late-to-the-party/ That wasn't what the concert was called, but it should've been.  Because if anybody doubted that we Bahamians have a lack of love for our country or our icons, last night's event -- entertainment maestro Ronnie Butler's farewell concert -- proved them wrong.   I'm not going to say all that ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/07/20/oh-look-wha-ya-do-to-me/ Now. WordPress 2.6 is not a major upgrade like 2.5, but it's an upgrade anyway.  And upgrading runs risks. Not that this has been the most active blog in the recent past (I have a lot to say but no real liberty of saying it) but people do stop by every now ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/07/20/warning-going-to-upgrade-again/ I don't know whether this is the best title for this post.  All I really wanted to do was to quote this paragraph from this post: "Say nothing of my religion," Jefferson once said. "It is known to myself and my God alone. Its evidence before the world is to be ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/07/08/thoughts-on-independence/ I thought this was an interesting article. Creating an Asphalt Garden | Views | TheRoot.com http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/29/creating-an-asphalt-garden/ Well, from Jamaica, this is interesting: PM Golding has invoked the Staff Orders rule that says governmental officials must keep their traps shut when their individual positions conflict with existing gov’t policy. Not an atypical move for him to make. But, it really does and should sweet us when we see cracks in ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/28/dissent-power-and-politics/ Hypocrisy & HIV in the Caribbean (Eemanee) Responses to HIV in the Caribbean are hampered by an entrenched hypocrisy, homophobia and false trotting out of “christian” values when convenient. meanwhile people continue to have sex, all kinds of sex, a lot of it unsafe. We feel free to talk around sex, to joke ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/18/shout-out-to-eemanee-long-bench/ Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called "Red". It's about being in between. As Philp writes: And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word "red," which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/16/red/ I'm baking a frozen roll of French bread for breakfast.  That's what it said on the package. Know this.  As long as I'm awake, little things run through my head, rather like the ticker tape display you see at stock markets.  Little communications from my subconscious flash across my conscious mind ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/13/microwave-not-recommended-to-bake-a-quality-bread-product/ There are days, Mama, when there is far too much to do to do anything much at all. This week has been pretty much like that.  It's a week when I wish I was like earthworms or amoeba -- slice me up and let me regenerate into six or seven mes.  ... http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2008/06/12/there-are-days/