We weren’t allowed to even run at St. Hugh’s. Walking fast but gracefully was all that was permitted, since it was “unladylike” and undignified to run like the mortals at those other schools. Mrs. Inez Carnegie, our Principal and Five-Star General was the epitome of dignity and decorum, and ensured that her charges walked in [...]

We never looked forward to the start of any school term. In addition to the realization that “wi free paper bun”, judgment day was always that last Saturday just before school reopened, when all the joys of the holidays would evaporate into the feverish preparation of uniform and books for school, and the forbidding prospect [...]

The principal told her staff that all classes at the school would be conducted in proper, standard English, as had been the custom there for many years, and as a foreign teacher from an English-speaking country, I had no problem with that other than my speaking with what a few of my students called a [...]

I am fascinated by beauty and simplicity. They are combined in beauty contests. Hence, I love contests where those beauties want to be “a cosmetologist or a cosmologist and end global wars and hunger”. Such beauty in simplicity or is it the other way ’round? So it set me thinking of a simple way to [...]

While passing through the parish of St. Elizabeth, we stop, my friends and I, at a roadside bar to get some light refreshment. We hear the slams and the animated comments, and notice in a corner of the bar, four locals playing dominoes, engaged in a hearty debate. Well, it isn’t really a debate since [...]