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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading.
I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways people [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn.
It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to want [...]

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How not to lead a nation

16 January 2010

Before I post this, let me say two things. First, I have been informed by a reliable source (one of the editors) that the Tribune was not responsible for writing the article whose headline I slammed; it was an AP story that they re-ran as the lead.
And second, I am trusting that by reposting this [...]

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On Stilton Cheese & Culture Change (a little anthropology for Christmas)

23 December 2009

I want you to check this out.
The history of Stilton can be traced back to the early 18th century and although it is clear that the recipe used has changed quite dramatically over the years it remains one of the world’s best known and much loved cheeses.
Quintessentially English, Stilton has its own Certification Trade Mark and [...]

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Generation Y

11 November 2009

Generation Y
It’s been a long time since I was able to follow the blogs I read, partly because I’ve been doing so much other stuff but largely because I still can’t add bookmarks to Safari and I haven’t taken to other feed-readers. So I haven’t been discovering new blogs or dropping old ones — I [...]

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Ward’s take on the local film industry

21 August 2009
Thumbnail image for Ward’s take on the local film industry

I’m really taken by Ward Minnis’ series of blog posts on the viability of Bahamian art, and I’ve linked to them on this blog and I’ll link to them again. He’s developing a number of such posts (more power to him!) and they are very interesting reading. If you’re at all interested in entrepreneurship, in [...]

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Swedish parents keep 2-year-old’s gender secret – The Local

25 June 2009

Just in case you might be thinking that male/female was a god-given thing—
A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.
Pop’s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex a secret. [...]

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There are days

12 June 2008

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.  (Biologists, don’t bother — leave [...]

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The Gaulin Wife

9 June 2008

The Gaulin Wife – Helen Klonaris’ blog

Lynn Sweeting sent me this link today, and it’s with much pride that I announce it here.  I’m not always so excited about new blogs, but I know Helen, I know her work, and I encourage everybody who’s interested in thinking differently about ourselves as Bahamians take the time [...]

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Changing Pace

10 May 2008

Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada, West Indies by Jason de Caires Taylor
 
I came across this gem while surfing poets’ websites. It took my breath away.
Go have a look.  Let’s tip our hats to the dream that became amazingly, hauntingly, real.

Vicissitudes

Grace Reef
 

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