See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid. I’ve actually finished reading this, after many months. Life and the battles for attention esp with Instagram and YouTube. And this is also not the kind of book you just fly through. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. Continuing my obsession with books by people from the […]
One. There’s only one you. With one lower back. That screams at you to move! Two. You only have two hands. That are learning too easily how to get stiff. Three-Four. About the number of hours you can meaningfully concentrate on anything. After that, diminishing returns. Five. Number of hours you get on a good […]
There is something about not interacting with Jamaicans regularly and live, as opposed to via text, that causes some ways of speaking to go on a temporary vacation from your mind. Recently, a friend used this one in a written conversation: x a breed mi. Later when I was reflecting on my first few weeks […]
I’ve decided to become a writer. Again. Some people say they always knew they wanted to become writers. Not me. I didn’t read voraciously as a child, and when I became really interested in language and literature in high school, I still didn’t know that you could just be a writer. Even in university, where […]