"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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Changing jobs while pregnant
I am 7 months pregnant (29 weeks to be exact) and I've recently started a new job. Let me start by saying that 7 months ago, I was neither looking to change my job nor did I plan on being pregnant. Changing jobs while pregnant happened by “accident”. The offer for a new job While...
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Usain Bolt – Lessons in confidence
It’s the year 2004. In Athens, 17-year-old Usain Bolt crouches into the starting blocks at the Olympics. The gun goes off. Like all his competitors, he bolts from the blocks. Plagued by a hamstring injury, he is left chasing his competitors. He doesn’t make it past the first round. In true Jamaican style, many cursed...
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It’s better in Bahamas (so they say)
We arrived in Bahamas in a little over an hour on a direct Caribbean Airlines flight. Immigration was hassle-free (hear that Trinidad… Barbados?), but it took quite a bit of time to retrieve our luggage. The customs officer actually searched every single one of our bags. Word has it that it’s because we were on...
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We’re going to Bahamas!
Exciting. Fun. Rocky. Romantic. Those are the four words I’d use to describe our trip to Bahamas. Kinda like our marriage. We’ve been married for four years. Those who have been married for a long time will tell you that four years is nowhere near the big leagues. Baby stage they call it. But four...
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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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Georgia Crawford-Williams talks Career and Family
"A true woman is a woman who wakes up every morning faced with several decisions and despite what the world is telling her she chooses to make the right one. She stands by what she believes, realizes what she deserves and doesn’t settle for less. She is honest, and loyal. She puts up with far...
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Le Diner en Blanc – Why would I pay to feed myself?
Last year, when Garfield aka “the great adventurer” aka “the explorer” aka “the trier of all things new” excitedly suggested that we attend the first staging of Le Diner en Blanc – Dinner in White – I rolled my eyes and responded, “Hell no?!” I mean, “Why would I want to go to one of...
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‘Tis the season for Carnival
‘Tis the time for soca, chipping on the road, wining, getting on bad, partying, drinking and more partying. By now, you may all know that one of us loves carnival more than the other. Let me give you a hint. That would be one who never misses Trinidad carnival even with the announcement of a general election....
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So you want to be a lawyer, huh?
For a year and a half, I have been referring to myself as an attorney-at-law. (Fancy huh!) I’ll grudgingly admit that it's a pretty gratifying feeling, a fulfilment of a lifelong dream if you will. Now, ever so often I run into a poor unsuspecting individual who wants to study law or is already studying...
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