The Anxious Black Woman has given me a Splash Award. I am honored to be included among the illustrious and fascinating blogs she lists! The Splash award is given to alluring, amusing, bewitching, impressive, and inspiring blogs. When you receive this award, you get to: 1. Put the logo on your blog/post. 2. Nominate up … More The SPLASH Awards
It is the weekend, so we must sing! This is Jim Hession on J. R. Morton’s “Fingerwrecker.” I am in the Bywater, sitting on the back porch. I cut the banana palms down to waist height, as one does, two days ago. They have already grown five inches. Axé.
April Fool! I am not really in Haiti, but I am dreaming of it and of the Faroes. In Haiti one speaks Kreyòl, and in the Faroes, Faroese. I can partly understand both of these languages, which makes the islands upon which they are spoken very tantalizing. And I have no serious interest in Sweden, … More Faroese
I am in Haiti, having flown here from New Orleans this morning. I left at 8:30, I arrived at 12:30, and I paid $432. It is less beautiful than this film, which makes me wonder — has it deteriorated to so great a degree, or does the film idealize? Did they clean the streets before … More En Haiti
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