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Feverish I have been home from work long enough to feed the cats that do not belong to me and myself. I'm racked with shivers and chills so I have dug out the...	1,210	1	0	Sep 2007	Sep 2007	May 4
East Coast Morning Sky lightens and turns to shades of lavender and blue with pink flushed clouds long before the sunrise. Across the heaving bosom of the sea a brazen p...	1,166	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 14
Weekend or beginning? It has been an odd week. Odd as in strange rather than odd as opposed to even. I have been restive and restless. My words have clogged somewhere in...	1,181	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 2
Better than a web cam:Telethon on line It has been a hectic week. An apartment building collapsed and lives were lost and all the various media houses are getting together to host a teleth...	1,120	1	0	Sep 2007	Sep 2007	May 5
A touch of dialect. The 'bajan' dialect has a flavour of the Belfast accent to it and a cadence and rhythm all its own. I don't often write in dialect although in speech...	1,189	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 11
The Towers Fell In just sixteen minutes by local bajan time it will be 9/11. I was in my favorite coffee shop ordering coffee with a double shot of espresso, my da...	1,239	1	0	Sep 2007	Sep 2007	May 10
Too much to handle... So many things going through my head it is more like Grand Central than my brain! I conducted two interviews/auditions today. Both men. One who is e...	1,227	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 15
Storms brewing... So Dean has been upgraded to hurricane status and as of 5:00 a.m. local time Warnings were issued for St. Lucia, where my sister lives. Years ago d...	1,100	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 16

Starting the day The sunny Caribbean drips with rain, echoing with thunder up and down the sodden, sullen, sky. The yard is ankle deep or deeper where water will not...	1,219	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 13
Evening thoughts I stood beside the sea this evening, a pewter platter all wrinkled like a careless counterpane or the pleated skin of the really old. Not a wave. Jus...	1,111	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 18
The Not So Fragile Heart The tear that welled into the right eye was just the beginning of the storm. As it overflowed the margins of the eyelid and slid gently down the curve...	1,181	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	15 hrs ago
What do women really want: was asked in the forum today (or yesterday probably by now). So I thought for a moment - as if I haven't had the thought a thousand times before - wh...	1,059	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 18
After the wedding... Such an exquisite agony suffusing every joint, and every bit of it well-earned and relished! I live in a body that complains. The joints creak and a...	1,109	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 15
Three Blog Day (with apologies to Three Dog Night)the title just popped into my head as I caught myself on the verge of falling asleep. A busy and productive afterno...	1,320	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	May 9
Living in a Coconut Tree I don't, of course, but someone that I cherish used the phrase and I am stealing it, the perfect jumping off point for today.When I met my sister-in-l...	1,245	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	May 9
Sunday has been no day of rest... I washed the car, dismantled and repaired the seat belt on the driver's side - there's this weird little spinning top kind of thing in there which dri...	1,813	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	Apr 26
A piece of arrant nonsense Days keep on passing or so it seems. I wake, I sleep, I wake again to another dawn, another day numbered and named so I can know when I am...as if I...	1,801	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	May 11
Seeing a new truth... I have been having nightmares the last few nights, inchoate scenes of loss and death and horror. I sit with them quietly because dreams always carry...	1,851	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	May 13
Travellin' today! Okay, I have packed and unpacked twice - I'm going to shop I don't need to take a full suitcase. Posted my morning poem in the forums and checked out...	1,613	1	0	May 2007	May 2007	May 16
Unformatted floppies Now explain to me HOW when I formatted the disks in the drive attached to the computer I later tried to access the data from it can blandly tell me th...	1,547	1	0	May 2007	May 2007	May 4
Be careful what you wish for I have always wanted to do a late night radio show and now I am. Midnight till morning every Friday and it is both the most exciting and most frustra...	1,346	1	0	May 2007	Aug 2007	May 4

Time for work It's ten p.m. and time to head off to keep the people company till dawn. On the schedule for tonight: a feature on acupuncture;poetry and music music...	1,347	1	0	May 2007	Mar 2020	7 hrs ago
The places that I live. There are six apartments in this complex, several mango trees in the back yard and a profusion of bougainvillia in the front as well as the obligatory...	1,303	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 9
When I wake up in the morning... I stretch and gaze at the ceiling through the mesh of pale green netting. When I first came back home every mosquito in the neighbourhood sent out an...	1,271	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 14
How I came to sin... When I was about nine years old I loved to go to church. I went to school at St. Gabriel's, staffed by Anglican nuns in full habit, mostly black with...	1,173	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 15
"People" you meet along the way... I am allergic to cats. My eyes swell, my nose drips, I itch dreadfully for an endless three to four days whenever I meet a new one, and still I have...	1,156	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 15
The view from the edge Just showered skin sheened and slick with fresh made sweat, sun doing its best to pull moisture into the air to make its thunderstorms. The taste of...	1,159	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 9
A crash in the night... Someone just threw a rock through my bedroom window. I heard nothing before or after the smash, no running steps, no voices. The why is as much a qu...	1,140	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 18
Heart "fight" a year ago today... How did it get to be Friday? I hadn't quite finished with the rest of the week yet! Having an official holiday in the middle of the week always seems...	1,125	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	May 9
Flaming out at Sunrise Sunrise is getting later and later as the world shifts and turns on its axes, tilting its way into tomorrow. An interesting side effect of this is tha...	1,236	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	Apr 26
Explaining myself - an entry directed outward Perhaps, if despite having a degree in English, my words are totally incomprehensible, you are applying the wrong yardstick. This is a blog. Whe...	1,082	1	0	Jul 2007	Jul 2007	May 9

A perfect date. In a small community it is relatively easy to become a local celebrity if one works in radio & television. Years ago my mother called me and said "I p...	1,169	1	0	Jun 2007	Jun 2007	May 10
Sticks and stones and words I have had reason, in the last twenty four hours to give some thought to what constitutes an apology. If someone causes harm either inadvertently o...	1,116	1	0	Aug 2007	Aug 2007	21 hrs ago
Surviving Tuesday. I drove home in the rain today. Real rain, heavy, sheeting down to bar the view of the roadway. Too hard, by far, to be pushed aside by even the fas...	858	0	0	Jul 2007		May 10
Cover me with labels I sit in a steamy afternoon and ponder who I am and how I got here. Why do I care? Usually I don't but now and then I want to understand the me that...	1,010	0	0	Aug 2007		May 13
Looking inside is always a surprise I made a commitment to myself when I started this blog. Basically a commitment to write. To let go of all the coils and curlicues of life that I usu...	845	0	0	Jul 2007		May 15
Feeling a need... I feel a poem coming on, although it could be just incipient indigestion, and I have already posted a couple today so I can come quietly to the world...	911	0	0	Jul 2007		May 12
Midday Monday Musings Love it when I can be alliterative without working at it. I have spent the last couple of hours listening to and judiciously editing an interview abo...	825	0	0	Jul 2007		May 12
Just plain wrong! All the elements are there. Everything is assembled and the first mix down is complete. Just the final touches, adding the theme music and this thing...	866	0	0	Jul 2007		May 12
Being real Drink me, eat me up whole with not so much as a burp to mark my passing. Words strung like coloured lanterns mark the wanderings of a soul, most unrem...	933	0	0	Jul 2007		May 13

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