I’m job hunting right now. Hasn’t been going very well. Cover letter writing is a skill to which I am not well suited. It seems to be an odd sub-set of creative non-fiction. In 250 words or less I have to tell company X just how perfect a fit I will be in their office [...]

What have I been up to? 2011 has been a banner year. When it started I was working in retail in the Ottawa Rideau Centre and now I’m back home in the Bahamas producing a play that I spent the last four (or was it five) years writing. Living the dream? For damn sure ma [...]

Dear internets, here is a video trailer of sorts of a cool play that I was privileged to be a part of. The pictures in the trailer are from a reading that took place Thursday Dec 2nd at Bronson Place. The day happened to also be the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The [...]

The comprehensive critique of Nicolette Bethel’s Day of Absence is now live over on Mental Slavery.com. Go on over and check it out. You can download the podcast, get it as a .pdf or a word document, or just read it on the web. It’s a long essay, and I know you’re busy. So if [...]

Imagine a day with no artists. On February 11, 2009, the first Day of Absence was observed in the Bahamas with the above tag-line. This event was the brain child of Nicolette Bethel, prominent Bahamian anthropologist, scholar and playwright. With a demonstration at the College of the Bahamas and numerous blog posts, interviews and radio [...]

…shouldn’t have left you.. without a dope beat to step to… step to. Flick it, flick it… Good news. The thesis is progressing well. When I last wrote here, I was stuck in a fourth chapter that seemed of infinite duration, and honestly I started to panic. See, for my own sanity, and reasons of [...]

Just letting you know that there is a new post over on Mental Slavery dot com. The piece is the guest editorial that appears in the current Spring / Summer 2009 issue of The College of the Bahamas Alumni Magazine. It’s entitled The Bahamian story needs a reality check. I think it’s worth a quick [...]

Well not me per se. I’m not Oprah! It’s one of my paintings that is gracing the present issue of Tongues of the Ocean. Why not take a look and read some of the wonderful poetry while you are there. The piece which is entitled “Before Someone Sees” was painted as a part of my [...]

Everyone knows Google. And now it’s hard to think how the web worked without search. I stumbled into something that, in a few years, might become just as essential to our experience of the internet. It’s called Wolfram|Alpha, and although it may look like a search engine, and may have been hyped as a google-killer, [...]

Congratulations to me. I’m now 32. I survived another year. So now I’m out of my prime and I guess it all goes downhill from here, etc. ad nauseam. So what did I accomplish in this past year? Good question. First things first. What I didn’t accomplish. I was hoping to have my thesis finished [...]