The things that change our lives! I just received an e-mail from a distant relative in South America — deliberately, no country named. She lived in Tunapuna, Trinidad, once and I spent time at her mother’s, long ago.
This person did what was then the unexpected thing: she married a Muslim gentleman. Even though those were [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Yes, Columbus?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About Ric Hernandez
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Born in Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, now in Show Low, Arizona, after a life in journalism and advertising in the Caribbean.
Music: Baroque. Old-time calypsos. Pan. David Rudder. Cello soloists. Ballet music. Classical trumpet. Scott Joplin. Erik Satie.
Reading: Remembrance of Things Past. Dance to the Music of Time. The Henry James travel pieces. English essayists. Enigma [...]
Quick takes
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The trick is to pick up on these flashes that assail us, perhaps oftener than we realize.
Pouring over the Chinese menu in Port of Spain’s Singho restaurant, reconnecting with the art of ordering by portions, we were revisited by a simple gesture, proffering of the hot towels!
Unremembered until that moment, sight of the steaming towels [...]
Asa Gudmundstotir
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
She is probably the only Icelandic woman ever to set foot in Trinidad, and likely the only one to settle down and make it her home. What’s more, Asa Gudmundstotir and her English husband, Henry Newcombe Wright, chose the untamed highwoods north of Arima known as Lalaja to lay down roots in 1946.
In that last [...]
Return of Rufous
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s mostly about the yard these summer days. The poplars back of the garage, put in not quite two years ago from the neighbor’s stand, are now taller than I am, and confident enough in their growth to be putting out shoots of their own. Left alone these shoots will translate into tiny trees, becoming [...]
Those were the Days?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A section of the past snuck back into play yesterday in the form of a sizable bubble-wrapped, air-expressed package greeting us when we came back from the gym. It was the nameplate of the advertising agency that occupied our waking dreams for many years in Trinidad. It was from John Citron in Cape Cod.
John and [...]
Lolita Lost and Found
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d tried for years to get in touch with Lolita after that time in Trinidad when she visited us at our place in Glencoe. Then, out of the blue, there was an email from her!
“I caught up with you,” she wrote, “in the Trinidad Express through articles about your travels in the U.S I tried [...]
Losing the Caribbean?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Lloyd Best Institute continues to motivate movement towards the Light: not that too many people, especially those in command, seem to be blinking.
On Wednesday, July 9, the institute is having Ivan Laughlin talk about “Humanizing Physical Development” as part of their continuing seminar for professionals.
These talks are meant to address key issues affecting the [...]
Lolita
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Detroit Noir” came in the mail this morning. Lolita had posted it, as promised, just before leaving for a visit to Trinidad, where her father was born.
“If you don’t mind,” she had e-mailed, “I’d like to send you a compilation of Detroit stories, which includes a story I wrote about my father and cricket.”
“Over the [...]
