Monthly Archives October 2009

halloween and me

I’ll be honest, for all the years that I lived in Jamaica and knew about this thing called Halloween, I have yearned to decorate my yard with the paraphernalia associated with the season: skulls, headstones, witches on brooms, cobwebs and spiders, pumpkin heads … you get the idea.  It always seemed to be chic to [...]

overheard: definition of a snob

Caution: Jamaican dialect follows. Tread cautiously. “lawd jesus… me a snob from age 3. Mom seh me find one side of the sand box and fuck off wid all de rest of the pickney dem”