Blogging

Back when I first tried my hand at an online presence.

That blog is self-explanatory, an era when I was indecisive about what I wanted to do with my writing and uncertain that I wanted to be heard. But just like Haller of Hesse’s Steppenwolf took a while to understand what Hermine was trying to tell him, it took me a while to hear her message to him, even though I had read the novel several times.

Writing Projects in Progress

Contributor to an academic blog at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

Short story collection

Academic articles

Published Creative Writing

Poems: Sidewalk, (p. 7); Popcorn, (p. 8) in (2000). Miscellaneous writings from St. Lucia. Castries, St. Lucia: Carifesta 2000 Committee.

Prose: Vignettes, (pp. 12-14) in (1998). Anthology. Castries, St. Lucia: M&C Fine Arts Awards.

Awards

Minvielle and Chastanet Fine Arts Awards Competition, St. Lucia:

  • Prose Award, 1997
  • Prose Award, 1996
  • Poetry Award, 1995

Some of my favourite writers

(I have not read everything by all of them; getting there)
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Erna Brodber
  • Jean Rhys
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • Derek Walcott
  • Carl Jung
  • J. K. Rowling
  • Jane Austen
  • Agatha Christie
  • Enid Blyton
  • Toni Morrison
  • Khalil Gibran
  • Olive Senior

    Some of my to-read list

(Have read one or  two, but I want to soak up a whole lot more)
  • Marlon James
  • Octavia Butler
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Chimamanda Adichie
  • Zadie Smith
  • Ursula le Guin

Some of my favourite words

  • ubuntu
  • serendipity
  • wanderlust
  • zen
  • tsundoku
  • saudade
  • avété-Kwéyòl interjection

Here and there

(writing that I have really enjoyed, in no particular order)
  • Leaves in a River, Earl Long
  • Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
  • The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyer
  • Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
  • The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
  • The Mimic Men, V. S. Naipaul
  • I, Tituba, Maryse Conde
  • Annie, Jamaica Kincaid
  • Divine Horsemen, Maya Deren
  • Fifteen Dogs, Andre Alexis
  • Growing in the Dark, Earl Lovelace
  • Women who run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  • Dis Poem, Mutaburuka
  • The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  • The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, T. S. Eliot
  • Ode to Brother Joe, Anthony McNeil
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
  • Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
  • Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka

(I should stop, because I every time I remember something that I want to reread, I think I should add it here because it is worth inviting others to read it.)

Last one, contemporary: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. I read the trilogy in a weekend because it was “un-put-down-able!”)

Other Interests

(include but are not limited to…)

  • Books, in all shapes and forms
  • Folklore and mythology
  • Dogs, dogs, and more dogs
  • Cooking, or is it eating? Perhaps I should say: epicurean interests
  • Music: Caribbean soca and reggae, zouk, soul, neo-soul, some classical, afro-beat, and random pop music
  • Arts – film, tv,  amateur appreciation of theatre, dance, and visual
  • Gentle hiking
  • Gentle breezes and sunlight filtering through verdant foliage
  • Gentle waterways