I visited during peak Christmas market season, and on a Saturday. The streets were buzzing despite the cold. A few roads into the island were closed to cars, parking was a small adventure, there were police checkpoints to access the center, and queues at cafés and restaurants snaked around corners. Continue reading Travel: Day Trip to Strasbourg, France
Watching skiers carve their arcs against the sky, I felt a sudden, unexpected pull. The videos of apres-ski cheer and effortless grace I’d envied from afar were now my reality. So, I strapped on a snowboard for the very first time. Continue reading Travel: Finding Freedom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Bitter Passion Fruit is an autofiction-esque erotic thriller about two Caribbean expatriates building a new life far from home. A passionate workplace affair sparks between them, but the female lead remains deeply apprehensive. She uses his reputation as a player to keep him at a distance, but this is merely an excuse. The truth is, she is hiding from him, from everyone. She is running from a past that is now poised to return and haunt them both.
Continue reading Tales: Introducing “Bitter Passion Fruit” (A Novel)
Stevns Klint, a UNESCO World Heritage site. These aren’t just any cliffs they’re a fossil-hunter’s paradise, said to contain over 400 species of macrofossils and thousands of microfossils, telling a 65-million-year-old tale of an asteroid that reshaped life on Earth. Continue reading Travel for Tales & Food: Denmark
There is unhappiness bubbling within me. From the moment (last week, 3/20/23) I heard the birds chirping to signal the rapid change from winter to spring; it’s then I started to feel ill. I felt like the season of being left out was upon me again. Continue reading Tales: April Shower
Random Day Trip to Amsterdam Continue reading Travel: Random Day Trip to Amsterdam
The prompt for Day 11 of the Bloganuary challenge is “What does it mean to live boldly?” To live boldly generally means to live a life without reservations. I use the word reservation becaues it will forever remind me of Anthony Bourdain. A figure who has inspired me to travel and start a blog that led me here. I would say Anthony lived a life … Continue reading Tales: Bloganuary # 11 (Boldly Living Bourdain-ism)
The prompt for January 8th is “What do you like most about your writing? I wonder how many people found this prompt challenging to respond to in the briefest way possible. I love writing and have a long list of reasons I am drawn to it. That previous statement would seem even more bazaar if I told you that I am dyslexic. I was not … Continue reading Tales: Bloganuary (Writing is a Superpower)
Day 7 prompt was What makes you laugh? This topic isn’t something that I think of very often. I can say that there are no actual defining criteria on what makes me break out in joyful laugher. One moment it can be because I am watching scenes from the old Dave Chapelle tv show and then its becaseu I watched a videos of people falling … Continue reading Tales: Bloganuary (Laughing at the Comment Section)
The prompt for January 6th is “Who is someone that inspires you and why? This is another difficult prompt because we encounter many inspirations throughout our lifetime. But, at the moment, I can only think of one person, and that person is Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, an author who goes by the name Jamaica Kincaid. She is a Caribbean American author whose novel Annie John … Continue reading Tales: Bloganuary (Inspired by Jamaica Kincaid)
I am a day late and a dollar short, but yesterday I intended on posting the on 5th day of Bloguanuary, and it didn’t happen. The prompt for January 5th was “What is something you wish you knew how to do?” I honestly have a laundry list of things I wish I knew how to do, but the one thing I’ve wanted to do but … Continue reading Tales: Bloganuary (What I Wish I Knew How to Do!)
In the Realm of the Senses or L ’Empire des Sens is a Japanese art film released in 1976. This film tells the story of two lovers and the passion that engulfs them as ones’ obsession turns deadly. This sounds like an introduction to a Lifetime movie, one where the man or woman does something irreprehensible in the name of love, lust, or desire. Directed … Continue reading Tales: 愛のコリーダ In the Realm of the Senses
Watch the Company You Keep! ONE OF THE MOST RECENT COMPANIES I have worked for is a company called Amentum N&E Holdings LLC, based out of Germantown, Maryland. This is a private company, which describes itself online as having a “global government partnership.” If you Google the company, you will not find a wiki page because it’s a relatively new name birth from an older … Continue reading Tales: What does Bugsy Malone have in Common with Defense Contracting? Part Two
FOR A VERY LONG TIME I’VE WANTED TO WRITE about my experience as a defense contractor. It’s been a few years since I started this journey, which means I am holding on to many memories, experiences, and nagging questions. However, when I attempt to write about my time in this industry, I’ve found it extremely taxing because it’s met with a cavalcade of emotions. By … Continue reading Tales: What does Bugsy Malone have in Common with Defense Contracting? Part One
My favorite photos are always of flowers and plants for some reason. This was taken at Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria. Plants and flowers are the only things in nature that are always photogenic; but never have to stop and pose, fix their face, or change their dress. They are just gorgeous naturally. Continue reading Tales: Flowers at a Palace
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