Until I forced open my eyes, I had been carried though life dazed by the inherited well-established expectations of me, a son. As if...

In the recap of my life as an almost vagrant, you see I’ve been settling into a routine. Its defining characteristic is doing whatever...

*I’ve used the term “pest” because there’s no concise way to say, “animals I’d rather not have in my garden” (considering the right...

Sorry I missed last Friday. I’ve been busy working on short stories for publication with my editor. They don’t yet include House on the...

At the mention that I am growing plants, the response will usually be, “Good for you! I don’t have a green thumb.” It’s a cop out! One of...

Prelude So common-place this had become—standing up on a bus to speak to commuters—it had lost that triumphant feeling. I’d become too...

Ran out of scheduled posts, so here’s a recap of how I got here and where I’d like to go: Past Dairy A few months after starting my first...

Going through the LPs that had always been there, but on the margins of curiosity, I tried out different songs on my ears and would get...

I didn’t think I’d be particularly good at it…just felt right, going it alone, even without the omnipresent pimp as company, for its...

Escaping wage slavery is easy. You leave your job. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a place to stay while working on keeping myself...

1. Extremely Negatively Reactive Toxic parents are emotionally immature. Minor issues are blown out of proportion and a determination to...

“Barbados’ Constitution contains a ‘savings clause’, which protects laws inherited by the former British Empire from constitutional...

What it is: armies of rice grasses filing up, down and sideways, lay floating reflections – thriving where others drown, marching where...

Fear is the driving force behind keeping people in jobs they hate, to make money to save for a future that may not materialise. You could...

Bim? Bim (not to be confused with: Bam Bim Used there as a chiefly onomatopoeic device) is the shortened form of ‘Bimshire’, one of the...

An existential crisis awaits you. It’s not the first time you won’t be ready but still survive one. You always do…as if it weren’t up to...

This is one of my entries for Barbados’s NIFCA (National Independence Festival of Creative Arts) this year, (which would also to appear...

A truck’s wheels have wiped away some weeds’ chances, losing track of a mohawk curving up and around. Levelling out, dung splatters in...

Alarm Clock The morning arrived as they do…crowing. The night pauses, courteously giving way to the light, and the roosters are first to...

Fungus Gnat Larvae The memorable thing today has been the worms. Fungus Gnat Larvae Following a trail by the four toilet stalls outside...