Art & Leisure

Deanne Heron has produced a blaring narrative - a compilation of short stories, replete with witty jabs, atmospheric levity and colour. Pardner Money Stories captures a quintessential Caribbean family - free- spirited, blasé and poignantly opinionated.

The arc lights on the stage shining on the costumes of the actors and forming silhouettes can be perceived as dramatic, essential, complementary, or even hard-hitting at times.

Let's go back a bit.

I'd never heard of the Elysée Treaty and certainly had no intention of writing about it until French Ambassador Ginette de Matha took the microphone and spoke about her childhood in France after the war with Germany.

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The Amrit Yoga Institute, where we've come to spend a week in Salt Springs, Florida, is a five-hour drive north of Miami

I was really flattered to learn that this little rock on which I, Oxy Moron, reside could soon become the 'Greece of the Western Hemisphere'.

His house was much further out than the others, away from all the street signs and lamp posts, all the lights and people. He stood alone in the darkness, among the outskirts of the district, standing in the middle of the dry desert.

'Akin to No One' is an existential masterpiece. It is vintage story telling that moves, provokes, and instructs. Haitian playwright and author, Nicole Titus takes a page out of Victor Frankl's playbook, exploring the depth of human potential amid adversity and circumstantial blight.

Closing the achievement gap between groups of students on national exams has become a familiar imperative for many educators and politicians. We are still grappling with moot questions such as: how can students meet high academic standards if they do not believe in their ability to do so?

I always marvel that the things that bring out the best in people can, paradoxically, bring out the worst in them too. Take Facebook, for example. It's a marvelous invention. Sure, by over-surfing on Facebook, many of us waste the precious time we complain we don't have enough of; but it is an area of technology that I simply love.

He had always had a love affair with food. The rhythm of the boiling pot, the simmer of the sauté and the smoothness of the fricassee awakened a deep sense of fulfilment in him. The smell of spices marinating on his fingertips was a familiar aroma that centred him, kept him balanced, kept his world in orbit.