A year after I moved into the basement apartment I rent in Chevy Chase, I set off the fire alarm. I assure you that this was not because I don’t know how to cook, or because I lack common sense about the use of a kitchen fan. Rather, I was frying breadfruit (see, now you’re [...]
Growing up, my West Indian mother would have been horrified if I even implied that I was going to wear black to a wedding. Black, after all, is the color of funerals and mourning. It would be unfavorable to wear such a color, and display such ignorance about it, at a wedding. The number of [...]
Saturday night, Phil and I sat on the couch next to his dad and watched Michael Phelps break a world record by earning his eighth gold medal in a single Olympics. We were rooting for the USA from the get-go and had it not been for my Uncle Ossie’s enthusiastic yelling, “Watch out for Australia! [...]
The link came sometime last Thursday with email instructions from Phil to let him know what I thought of the idea. His friends would be visiting this weekend from New York and one of them had sent the email, alerting us about the newest fad in spa pedicures. Apparently, a salon in Alexandria, VA had [...]
In general, I’ve gotten a bad rap for being a “bad liberal” in the Adventist church. I have been known to guide wayward youth to their demise by telling them blatant untruths…such as, kissing before marriage is not a sin. I believe that homosexuality is no worse than other infractions on the eternal gauge of [...]
