June 03, 2014 We are always searching for home and our concept of home is always changing. Home can be a country, a people, a lover, a place you grew up in, a place you create for yourself. Home is many things and it is never static. Objects are home too – a rocking chair, […]
A few days in Grenada leave only impressions like snapshots taken from a speeding vehicle. There is just enough time for your eye to click the shutter and capture the image, but not enough to really understand the world around you. Grenada seems like the Caribbean we only see in postcards. There are no high-rise buildings and […]
As small as Trinidad seems on the map, there are still places that you can get lost in. Surely you’ve driven off the side of the island, skirted the coastline, magically sprouted fins and sailed across the ocean and ended up on another landmass. Surely you’ve closed your eyes and woken up elsewhere You’ve got […]
Belmont is a maze of winding streets and narrow lanes that slope upwards into densely packed hillsides that echo with history. Once called Freetown, Belmont has always been at the crux of the developing city of Port of Spain. Today, my great, great grandmother would not recognise it if not for the street names and a few […]
Sometimes in the bush, you find things you did not know you were looking for. Sometimes it’s courage, laughter, wonder or pain. Sometimes it’s seeing parts of yourself that you did not know were even there. Something about walking, climbing, falling, getting up, all surrounded by wet green, not knowing how much further you have […]
Sometimes in a rare, fleeting moment on a rainy day in Port of Spain, you can be in the right place at the right time and the city looks like somewhere else. It becomes a blue, green and grey place — still with its hard edges and unyielding buildings, but somehow soft. In these moments […]
