Right now we’re living in a land of unknown. And I’m trying not to freak out about it 🙃 With my Australian visa up shortly, I now have to make moves to try and extend it. How likely will that be? I’m not sure. They’re really telling people to make their way out (Australia to its tourist: BUH-BYE 👋🏽) I’d have to prepare to leave if that’s the case… Back Up Plan My back up Read more…
It’s one year later. One more year around the sun. And on the eve of my birthday (March 26th), I took some time to reflect. I reflected on things I worked on or accomplished personally and professionally over the last year. I was more open and vulnerable to someone new. I traveled, quite a bit – Australia, Taiwan, Antigua (seeing this made me smile). I spoke with my sister wayy more and I launched a Read more…
The resilience of Caribbean people. C’mon. Let’s face it. We are. In my travels around the world, I’ve met scores of Caribbean people. They’ve each shared a piece of their story with me – specifically, what made them leave their home to go and live somewhere else? So far, so abnormal, so different from what they knew? They gave up the commonality, the comfortability, the familiarity of their home land in search of something else… Read more…
You know when you have a plan? But then a world health pandemic screws it up? Yeah. Well. That’s me right now (if not all of us). My nomadic life has come to a stand still as I literally can’t ‘move’ anywhere. At least not yet, in this climate. Every time I try, it’s like nopeee, can’t go there either! It’s given my ‘need to organize’ and have my ish together tendencies a run for Read more…
Disclaimer: This one is a lil long! Waitangi Day in New Zealand is basically the equivalent of their Independence day. Kinda. It’s significant because it was the day the Maori (original people of New Zealand) and the British (the people that invaded) signed a treaty to agree on how they would run the country (In a nutshell). Now obviously, one group got the short end of the stick (take a guess who), but that’s not Read more…