Yearly Archives 2010

My childhood and some of the things it taught me…

Today was a day of links about child-rearing and parenting in healthy, instructive ways. First, my friend Adrian linked me an article discussing the best way to encourage boys to read as much as girls and we had a brief discourse on that issue on Facebook. Then came a link on how to encourage children [...]

Becoming more cynical as the years go by

When I first moved here to the US in July of 2008, I thought it’d be so cool to get involved in celebrations such as Halloween and Independence.  Having grown up in Jamaica, Independence means something FAR different to me and is celebrated a lot differently. There is more thankfulness than there is pride. Come [...]