As we fight the Coronavirus, Jamaican designers are stepping up to the challenge of providing us with cloth masks so we can stay safe and perhaps even fashionable at the same time. You may be aware that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C) is now recommending that we wear ‘cloth face coverings’ in...
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Mommies and expecting mommies are you worried about Coronavirus?
Hey mommies and mommies-to-be, I’m sure, you have tons of questions re COVID-19 and your children or your pregnancy. I teamed up with my favourite place, Burlington Health and the Paediatric Place, with an awesome group of doctors (Obstetrician and Paediatricians) who care for my precious Jordan to give you some answers. This was so...
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JustHitched Roundup: I was born the wrong time
Growing up Jordan: when you don't exactly believe in Christmas My husband and I aren't religious. We believe in a supreme being, but we are not devout Christians or churchgoers. Those of you who have been on this journey with us know by now that I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness. My mom, my...
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Bell’s Palsy and my Pregnancy
"Holy crap, I'm having a stroke!" "What you mean? Stop the foolishness!" Shouted my girlfriend anxiously over the phone. It was approximately three weeks before my due date, and it was now routine for her to check in on me. I was brushing my teeth and about to hang up the phone to finish getting ready...
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How my husband discovered he could cook
My darling husband has earned himself three months vacation. I know, we 10-15 days private sector workers will never understand how someone can rack up three months of vacation. Three months! That's 90 days or about 100 days not counting weekends! Okay fine, I'll admit that his job is pretty rough, so perhaps he does deserve the time off (said a very...
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The family that runs together…
For most people, running a 5K race actually means running, or at least attempting to run, not walking, not strolling like you’re going for a romantic walk under the stars, not stopping to chit-chat with friends, or worst yet stopping to pose and upload Facebook and Instagram photos. Well, I did start by saying “most...
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Carnival fever… here we go again!
“Lecia, you see mi gym gloves?” “Lecia, please rearrange my gym drawers. Put the tops and bottoms separate.” Why does this sound so familiar? Why, yes, it’s Bucka getting gym ready. For most people, January is a time of new beginnings. The New Year brings new epiphanies, like the need to lose weight or the...
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Fix it or fall in love with it!
What is that one part of your body that you obsess about? That one part that you would fix if you had the opportunity or the money? Every woman, no matter how beautiful obsesses about some flaw (real or imagined) that she wants gone. For me it's not quite a flaw (though I have many)...
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Twenty-four things I wished I knew before getting pregnant
So, I’m browsing the internet minding my own business when I stumbled upon new research which shows that women lose 90% of their eggs at age 30. WTF? Seriously! Apparently, we are born with around 300,000 eggs and we pretty much lose them as we go along. At age 30 there are about 12% left!...
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My life as a victim (Safety tips for the holidays!)
Numb… the only word to describe how I felt as I sat reading the report confirming that the partially burnt body found along Port Royal main road was that of Tandy Lewis, the public relations officer at the Post and Telecoms Department who has been reported missing since October 13. The autopsy revealed that she...
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