I’ve written more than once about my hair, even wrote out the saga that ended with my short-short afro so many years ago. Nowadays, my afro, when I wear it, is Cleopatra Jones , not old-school Rashumba . (Couldn’t resist this photo of her with the eternally-gorgeous Beverly Johnson.)
When I wrote out my hair story, [...]
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Low-maintenance fabulousness.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, containing myself, memoir, nostalgia, tagged choose your own adventure, containing myself, I remember, memoir, NaBloPoMo, nostalgia on 9 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
Boo!
Posted in choose your own adventure, good neighbors, memoir, nostalgia, out and about, where we're from, tagged choose your own adventure, good neighbors, I remember, memoir, nostalgia, out and about, scaring the bejesus out of me, where we're from on 31 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
Happy Halloween! I have always loved Halloween. I love costumes, candy, spooky business, haunted houses and the general get-outside-yourself-ness that is Halloween. Then I learned about Day of the Dead … now there is a celebration! I still haven’t managed to be in Mexico for Dia de los Muertos. It’s a dream. Maybe next year?
When I [...]
Jiggedy Jog
Posted in Jamaica, choose your own adventure, guilty pleasures, out and about, photography, things that please me, tagged Jamaica, photography, Jah lives in I, places I love, out and about, choose your own adventure on 30 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
You know, as in “home again, home again …”
Is it really already a week since I was arguing with AC about whether he would come have dinner and sleep over at my house or if he really expected me to walk the mile and a half in the dark to his place?
Only a week since [...]
I do … not have an answer.
Posted in Jamaica, brain freeze, choose your own adventure, containing myself, love and other complications, no wonder I'm single!, self care, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, Jah lives in I, Jamaica, love and other complications, no wonder I'm single! on 18 October 2009 | 10 Comments »
So much for my belief that our long separation and only occasional conversation would have the effect of convincing AC that we are, in fact, no longer a couple. I saw him yesterday for the first time in two years … and he asked me to marry him.
I wish I was kidding.
I can’t possibly marry [...]
14 Sleeps
Posted in Jamaica, choose your own adventure, self care, things I love, tagged Jamaica, things I love, self care, places I love on 2 October 2009 | 8 Comments »
That’s my count down number for Jamaica. Two weeks from now, I’ll have touched down at Sangster, been collected by my taxi driver and driven down and down and down to the opposite coast. I’ll have driven through the huge orange orchard and past the “Jah Lives in I” shack. I’ll have stopped at Scott’s Cove to [...]
