Facing the new and unknown – rest first!

I migrated to Canada on Monday. For the first time in my life, I purchased a one-way ticket. This is a huge step, for not only have I moved, my teenagers have also moved with me. It is a big step for my entire family – including my dogs who will be joining us soon! […]

Panic …. then peace

I awoke yesterday morning at 4.45 a.m. in a panic. The day before I had moved my furniture and released my dogs, Daisy and Mufasa, to their new owner. Now, I realized, I was really moving to Canada. A rush of seemingly limitless “things to do before I leave” flooded my brain, juxtaposed with the […]

All-one

My friend Elsa wrote on her Facebook page:   Tonight i looked out my window and saw a breadfruit slice of a moon in the sky. Clear white light. And beside it, to the right almost perfectly in line with the tip of the slice, the brightest diamond of a star. The sky is a deep […]

My perfectly planned day

I had my day perfectly planned. I was in Barbados for the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks (CAIB) 35th Annual Conference. On Wednesday, I was scheduled to deliver the keynote on “Leadership in Times of Crisis” at 2.30 p.m. I planned my day well, so that I would be ready to deliver a mind blowing […]

Doing Nothing

Today is a public holiday in Jamaica. My children were invited to spend the long weekend with friends in the country. Bliss of all bliss – I have been home alone for two whole days! Last Thursday as I looked forward to the weekend, I shared with my sister that I had a long list […]

Relax and focus

“I didn’t know I was going to run so fast,” he said. “But I came out to be a champion, and I was. I just tried to stay relaxed. I’m always relaxing. That’s the way to go so fast: relax and just focus” – Usain Bolt   Will I ever tire of watching Usain Bolt winning […]

Calabash Continued

I read at Calabash this past weekend. For two minutes, I had the stage, sharing my words from “Free and Laughing”. It was amazing experience, standing there with the beautiful Calabash Bay in the background, the soft sea breeze gently fluttering the tail of my skirt. Every now and then I would glance at the […]

Back to normal

Yesterday, January 2, was “back to normal”. This is the day that signifies that the holidays are over. It is the day when the reality of our normal routine hits. We return to work, we start exercising again, we try to get our finances in some state of order, knowing that January will be a […]

Searching for a parking space ..

Last weekend, on my way home from a seminar in Los Angeles, I decided to stopover in Miami for a tad of Christmas shopping – actually, more than a tad as my children had given me a 6-page list! This is the weekend before Thanksgiving, so the malls were a teeming mass of humanity seeking […]

Roadside Meditation

Yesterday I flew from Jamaica to Trinidad. The flight is a long one – not because of distance, but because of the circuitous route. As the crow flies, the flight would take about two hours and fifteen minutes: because of the routing through Antigua and Barbados, the flight takes six hours. I knew I was […]

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