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Observations on Carnival, celebration, and the stories beneath the spectacle.

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Happy Independence Day St. Lucia

Today my country of birth celebrates their 34th Independence.  It is moments like this that make me miss home.  I can imagine me in the hot sun singing our national anthem or some patriotic song. I was looking at my Facebook feed earlier and saw someone saying that they were at a Youth Festival but the turnout […]

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my readers.  Christmas has become so commercialized and I hope you make the best of Christmas for what it really is. After all the gifts are open and the wrappers thrown out in the garbage, Christmas is done oui. But I must say, my one gift per child worked, (not much

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It’s really beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

        Hello all, I feel like I have neglected you guys…but rest assured I haven’t…there is not enough hours in the day any more. How have you all been? Hopefully all is well in y’all neck of the woods and Christmas shopping is all done or almost done.   As for my household,

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Miami Carnival Review 2011

(Just adding content to my blog, this is an old review of last year carnival) This year Miami Carnival has certainly been different, from the costume collection down to the weather.  Last year after a dismal stage crossing with Party People, I still decided to give them another chance this year and I played with them

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