Category: From My Vantage Point
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Women of the East
There are so many things that I have achieved and want to achieve – I want to own a business, travel the world and earn a Ph.D., etc. My dreams are very possible. If I work hard and make the right financial decisions, I can accomplish them. I know I can because I have seen […]
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Be Inspired: Fearful Women by Carolyn Kizer
I consider myself to be a feminist, a mild feminist, if that even exists. I hate seeing women being mistreated, undervalued, or even underestimated. I want us to rise above our issues and show ‘them’ just who we are… We are resilient creatures, who take hits every day, from almost every angle/ every aspect of […]
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Inconvenient Love
Valentine’s Day recently passed, its arrival and sudden departure, got me thinking about love, what it means to love, to be loved and what it really means to give yourself completely to another person. It also got me thinking about what Carrie said when she was breaking up with Aleksandr, – “I am someone who […]
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Reflection: 2013 – The Year That Was
We are on the eve of a new year, as we get prepared to say goodbye to 2013 and say hello to 2014. Let’s pause and look back at the year that was the very difficult 2013. As they say, the number thirteen is not a lucky number, and the year was not a lucky […]
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‘Tis Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!
It is officially December, so that means no work for some days, fruit cake, Christmas decorations, merry making, wine drinking and family loving! I love this season. It is by far the best season of the year. I am not a serial merry maker; you know, like those people who start playing carols from October […]
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What’s Wrong with Looking Young?
I am petite; I am 5ft 3 inches; I am small; I look much younger than I actually am. That is something good in my opinion, especially in the young obsessed culture that we live in… but over the past week, I have been bombarded with, are you 17? You look so young!… looking young/younger […]
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Looking Good Has Nothing to do With What you Wear
It is often said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Beauty and looking good is subjective and mean different things to different people. Just look at some of the runway shows. They have the weirdest ‘couture’ outfits that to me are hideous! … I know designers make ‘ready to wear’ and ‘couture’ […]
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My Jamaica: 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Jamaicans/Jamaica
I am a proud Jamaican. I Love my country and want nothing but its success. Many people looking from the outside have preconceived ideas about Jamaicans. They think we all live in trees, that the island is tiny, that everyone knows Usain Bolt or Bob Marley, and that all Jamaicans smoke Marijuana and are Rastafarians… […]
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From Me to You: Folkways by Edward ‘Kamau’ Brathwaite
I first fell in love with Edward Kamau Brathwaite when I was in College. I didn’t like poetry; I didn’t like Caribbean poetry. I thought it was tedious and very heavy. I thought it was just too much Afro-centricity!…It was a drag, people talking about our struggles, slavery etc, it was hard to digest…so I […]
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Are You Living in the Moment?
Lately, I find myself desiring passion and an emotionally fulfilling life, not that I didn’t have it before, I just had the sudden urge to have more!… I don’t know if you can relate, but have you ever been in a place in your life when you want to maximize every second of your day? […]
Simply Marvia 