Pháp Hoan |Haiku 12 (14) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Pháp Hoan is a Vietnamese-Canadian Poet and translator who currently lives and work in Vancouver, British Columbia. — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Pháp Hoan |Haiku 12 (14) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Un viaje verdaderamente mágico – « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » — Barbara Crane Navarro

ilustración de « Amazon Rainforest Magic – Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » « El segundo volumen de la serie Amazon Rainforest Magic narra el sorprendente viaje de Meromi, una niña Yanomami que se ve envuelta en una aventura inesperada en los ríos y selvas del Amazonas. Es un viaje verdaderamente mágico para Meromi a medida […]

Un viaje verdaderamente mágico – « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » — Barbara Crane Navarro

13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Hunger for Gold in the Global North is fueling a living hell in the Global South. Here are 20 reasons why you should #BoycottGold4Yanomami 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life

13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

COVID-19 in Jamaica: boosting, testing, vaccinating, and the Fourth Wave

Petchary's Blog

We got our booster shots this week. Our regular vaccination centre was bursting at the seams, so we drove down the road apiece to St. Joseph’s Hospital. As far as getting a needle stuck in your arm can be a pleasant experience – it really was! We sat under a big, airy tent on the hospital’s spacious grounds, and one doctor explained possible side effects to each one of us in a sensible and matter of fact way, answering questions from everyone. Another doctor wheeled a trolley with the vaccines in a small igloo.

St. Joseph’s Hospital, with Wareika Hill/Long Mountain behind. (My photo)

So that was done. I admit that I felt pretty lousy the following day (my husband had a mere headache). I felt very much like the Jamaican version of a tweet that made me laugh. After his booster, this American tweeter said he “felt like a…

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Writing process: meet the Protagonist -Isaias

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This is a note  from the protagonist of my novel in progress, Book I of my historical fantasy series: Who By Fire.  He is answering my question about who his parents are:

       I am the escaped body servant of a man who is still legally in possession of my person, and of my life.  He may also be in the process of purchasing my wife Lucy, a quadroon.   She is more a parent to me than any person on this earth ever has been.

I never knew my parents , because I was raised by a speculator who, I am told, purchased me as an infant from a “pleasure house” where my mother was a fancy maid.  As it is told, the speculator bought me with the intention of grooming me, as the Fancy Maids are groomed and trained, in order to be sold to a gentleman…

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