Interview with Marguerite – Laughing to Freedom

I am delighted to be featured on the Postcards from the Diaspora Corner of the Jamaica Cultural Exchange e-magazine.  Click HERE to enjoy this interview!
I am always happy for any opportunity to add to the freedom and laughter quotient in the world.  It is my belief that if enough people are free, then there will [...]

4 Life Lessons from The Harmonica Man

“Andy Mackie is The Harmonica Man. Andy has survived 10 heart surgeries and numerous heart attacks but his love of music and teaching kids music keeps him going. Andy Mackie is sharing a remarkable gift and I\'m sure will be missed by many when his heart finally quits”
via The Harmonica Man.
As I watched [...]

What is your WHY?

As I go through the ropes to move to the second round of the Next Top Spiritual Author competition, spending more and more time each day asking people to vote for me, focused on the May 3 deadline for voting, I am forced to ask myself WHY I have entered, and WHY I want to [...]

Conquering the Iditarod – with laughter!

Newton Marshall, the first Jamaican to enter the grueling Iditarod dogsled race, rode into Nome in grand style, Jamaican flag flying high to complete the race on Friday March 19.  I had watched his progress over the days on Facebook and the Iditarod website.  Thanks to GPS and live-streaming technology I was also present at [...]

Free and laughing at the car wash

Canada is full of new and wonderful experiences!  A week after I arrived I did something I had wanted to do for years – I went to the car wash!   In Jamaica, the car wash is typically a man with a bucket and rag.  The experience of an automated, drive-through car wash is new to [...]

Cure for cancer?

Here’s an interesting article on curing cancer.  I have always been fascinated by those in the medical profession who dismiss the importance of nutrition in preventing/curing dis-ease.  It seems counterintuitive to believe that we take stuff into our bodies throughout everyday, but that this “stuff” has no impact on our health and wellbeing!  Yet, in [...]

Blakka is free and laughing!

Owen “Blakka” Ellis, a well-known Jamaican comedian, and one of the nicest people you can ever meet,  speaks about being “free and laughing” in the Jamaican Star!