Christmas Cookies and Island-style Honesty
While I've never been a big holiday person, the one thing I have always looked forward to come December is the sudden influx of sugar-infused gifts for my insatiable sweet tooth to consume. From boxes of fancy chocolates, those giant caramel-corn tins, mason jars of...
The 12 Days of Island Christmas
Care to join us for an island-style sing-along? On the first day of Christmas my island gave to me: A Rooster Crowing at Me. On the second day of Christmas my island gave to me: Two Days No Power, and a Rooster Crowing at Me. On the third...
Holiday Hijinks in the Islands *PHOTO CONTEST*
If your rock is anything like mine, the odds are high that you've been audibly accosted by Mariah Carey and other 90s gems crooning holiday tunes everywhere you go for weeks now - perhaps even months. This year, it all began for me when I walked past a surf shop back...
On-Island for the Holidays: Thanksgiving Olympics
As expat rock dwellers, we have to pick and choose the holidays we go home for - we can't have 'em all. Christmas is mine. I won't miss it. Maybe someday when we live farther away I might have to, but not while we're on a rock where a 4-hour flight is the only thing...
A Change in Taste
Every year when Christmas has passed, I have to admit that I find myself missing the gaudy holiday décor that blanketed Tortola for a few weeks - weeks that I now think of as far too short. The flashing lights, inflatable Santas, and multi-coloured tinsel seemed to be...
Are You Methodist or Muslim?
Before I inadvertently arrived on the rock, I was living in a predominately Muslim country in Central Asia. I say Muslim, but it was really Muslim with a Soviet twist. This can best be explained by the fact that the men would diligently attend Friday afternoon...
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