The Jamaica Cultural Alliance (JCA) is an organization that offers opportunities for community enlightenment about the true culture and multi-faceted lifestyle of the people of…
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Catch Me at the LA Times Festival of Books This Weekend!
April 24, 2025I’m thrilled to invite you to the LA Times Festival of Books, one of the country’s biggest literary events, happening this weekend at USC! I’ll…
CARICON Goes to Marcus Garvey School
June 21, 2024I had a truly inspiring experience this week with a group of third through eighth grade students at the Marcus Garvey Elementary and Middle School…
L.A. Festival of Books – LAFOB
May 8, 2024Last week Saturday, I spent the day volunteering and sharing a booth out at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. This is the third year…
Recently my book, Lessons from Starfish, was reviewed by Judith Falloon-Reid. A luminary in the literary and cinematic realms, she is renowned as the host…
Still Dreamin’ – Almost There!
July 21, 2023After working on my first manuscript for about 11 years, I decided to stop procrastinating and get the “thing” published for once and for all!…
My Gentle Giant… Freddy
May 5, 2023Although always near in my heart, Freddy is no longer in this physical place. He no longer calls me on the phone and says, “Hey…
The Strength of our Roots
September 21, 2022There’s a mountainous area in Clarendon, Jamaica, a parish to the west of the capitol, Kingston. My grandfather, Frederick, was born there on a mountainside…
Why CARICON?
May 31, 2022Why Caricon? When I was a child I was a West Indian. I didn’t know it then, but I was an Indian because Christopher Columbus…
Alcántara…
April 12, 2022Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara keeps protesting for freedom of expression in his country – Cuba. And he keeps going to prison for his protests. Every…
