The Shadows Suite
A spooky story for the festive season. It’s Part 2 of The Shadows Know, The Shadows Suite. The story of the man in the shadows continues.
Gratitude Journal 101
My sister Alison, of Alison Wells Art in New Bedfordshire, has produced a wonderful guide on Journaling as a way toward mindfulness and emotional wellbeing. Go lil sis!
The Lost Lyrics of Lamya
Lamya Al-Mugheiry, singer, writer, poet. (1973 – 2009) A chance taken on an old CD. A CD buried in a charity shop, in a box of forgotten dreams. Memory lane to the 90s and early 20s. Panning for gold in a barren stream and suddenly a nugget of real weight was revealed. A gift that […]Read Post ›
The Shadows Know
Many, many years ago I wrote a short story that was a good idea but a bad short story. And for many, many years Alex insisted I shouldn’t discard the idea. Then out of the blue, he introduced me to a brilliant young rock guitarist from Hastings, Adam Nash. Who would have thought a Caribbean […]Read Post ›
Crick? Crack!
Long ago but not that long, two French performers, Anouk Morel (musician) and Stephanie Gibert (actor), came across my blog, River-Stories, and approached me to write a children’s play filled with Caribbean folklore characters. Together with a theatre company in St. Etienne, Compagnie La Baroufada, they have produced the play. And opening night is tonight! […]Read Post ›
GIRL
Last Friday, 6th May, as part of Caribbean Folklore Storytime’s celebration of Mother’s Day in the Caribbean, I read a story I had discovered way back in 1985 or so, Girl by Antiguan/American author Jamaica Kincaid. This very short story/poem, for me, reflects the gritty, practical truth of motherhood, the tensions of mother-daughter relationships and […]Read Post ›
Brian Richardson tells my Ananse story
About a month ago Caribbean Folklore Storytime had their Ananse and All Things Web storytelling session and Brian Richardson (actor and 1/3 of LAB productions) did a live Zoom performance of my Ananse story. It’s from my children’s novel ‘Journey as the Wire Bend, Up River where the Story End’, published by Bogle L’Overture Press […]Read Post ›
Mortimo “Kumi” Planno
I only recently came across some writings by Mortimo ‘Kumie’ Planno, a Rastafari teacher. As a Rasta it made me smile to read and so I’m sharing this bit of history that like some much of our history seems to have slipped through the cracks. Mortimo St George “Kumi” Planno, (6 September 1929, Cuba – 5 […]Read Post ›
young fathers –
The youth them getting edgy over here in the UK. I just saw this and it’s next level ready to go. Loved it.
New Year
Greetings to everyone who has visited and enjoyed my website over the past year. This year I’m hoping you will subscribe to view new content and get updates of what’s going on with River-Stories. In the next few months, there’s a short novel which will probably get the L.A.B. treatment. A children’s play that I […]Read Post ›