Lifestyle Archive

LILLIBEL KERR is multi-skilled. She is able to knit, sew, as well as make baskets and quilts if she is in a particular mood. However, her main hobby is knitting, which she enjoys, as it keeps her active.

IT WAS no laughing matter when 79-year-old Osmond Hemmings, then a student at the Grateful Hill Primary School in Glengoffe, St Catherine, told late former principal, Winston A. Smith, that he wanted to become a minister of religion.

The unmistakable squeak of a rusty bicycle chain was getting louder. I stepped to the side of the road a bit to make room. I could hear a man's voice, singing. It was coming from around a corner. It wasn't a song I had ever heard before....

I am married, and my wife no longer feels any pleasure when I stimulate her breasts.

Come on, let's get on with it! It was my own fault for getting caught in the Half-Way Tree area the weekend before schools reopened. This was always going to be crunch time for last-minute shoppers...

Q. Doctor, I am real worried that I may be losing my nature.

The following is feedback to last week's Roving with Lalah in Old Harbour, St Catherine:This is absolutely hilarious! I love your stories, Robert.

HECTOR SANDERSON of Rocky Point, Clarendon, believes he's an outcast in his own community. According to him, people avoid him and say that he's mad because he's an opinionated, knowledgeable and well-read person, who is not a part of the fishing ethos of Rocky Point.

Doc, do you think I will ever be able to have sex with a man? I am a girl of 19, and people say I am beautiful. Boys seem to like me. But I am worried. I have looked at my private parts in a mirror, and I am sure they are far too small for sexual intercourse.

I have a problem that's been going on for a year now. I have difficulty falling asleep at nights and I am unable to sleep throughout the nights. Whenever I am awake at nights, I think of all my problems and everything seems catastrophic in the dead of the night. I would like to get some sleep at nights.

For Joseph M. Matalon, there is no price that can be placed on the feeling he gets from the heartwarming gratitude expressed by a youth once considered 'at risk', but rescued from the brink of damnation....

She guards with her life a small, white teacup, which was part of the Government of Jamaica-issued memorabilia that marked the birth of Independent Jamaica 50 years ago.