JUMP AT THE SUNS

Soup Joumou, also known as the Haitian Independence Soup, is a hearty pumpkin (or squash) soup that is traditionally served on January 1...

There’s little to nothing on the drive from Liberia to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific lays claim. Nothing, as in no busy town squares, ...

The first text I dashed off to my mom and brother right before I walked in to the Goombay Festival for Junkanoo was "I am Bahamian now." We laughed. Indeed, ...

Every Sunday night in Antigua’s English Harbor, where hundreds of boats are scattered but docked, the steel pan drums lead the way; soundtracking the winding...

Aruba is rugged and vibrant – decadent in some places and quiet when it needs to be. There’s the healing sun, sand and sea and there’s also cacti-strewn terr...

Lately, I've been burning some incense that I was gifted by the ila spa in Antigua … I still carry with me the words my therapist spoke to me during a chakra...

I was asking the grounds manager at Betty's Hope, reportedly the first and largest sugar mill and plantation in Antigua, about the apprenticeship systems I w...

One of my main objectives when I visited the "Spice Island" of Grenada was to return with a haul of seasonings and spices. At Grenada's Spice Market in Marke...

Very early in the text “Intellectual Warfare” the late Jacob Carruthers wrote about how Jamaican-born Dutty Boukman made his way to Haiti in 1791 to incite t...

No, it wasn't Friday night, but yes, we were "liming" at Oistins, on a Thursday while the sun was high. The selection: Fried Flying Fish and Snapper + Planta...

Regrettably, I didn't take many (any?) pictures of the Barbados countryside and towns when I visited seven years ago. So, I have had to depend on memories an...

It’s perfectly fine to have great expectations of New Orleans. Its various institutions are well-versed in the onus that is placed on the city to hold space ...

I grew up between parched Southern Cali suburbs and maternal and paternal immediate and extended family in Jamaica. I was exposed to rural/city dynamic from ...

They call Santa Fe the “Sky City” because – besides being at 7,000-foot altitude — you are constantly compelled to look up. You see a glimpse of this in “Buc...

There are some travels that change you. Some change the way you measure time, space, even distance. Others recalibrate your senses, birthing new essentials, ...

It was like something out of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The part where Janie and Tea Cake go out to work in the muck of the ...

My mother’s family hails from Bois Content, Jamaica in the hills north of Old Harbour Bay, on the South Coast of the island. My father lives in Linstead – of...

There’s little to nothing on the 30-minute drive from the airport to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific Ocean lays claim. Nothing – as in n...

Great wine grapes, it is said, need sun to aid in the production of sugars (via photosynthesis), color development and heat accumulation for overall ripening...