Power from the Sun
I’ve long wanted to power our house with a solar system but because we’ve been so serious about energy conservation, our light bill is low.
Diana’s Substack - Inroads
Reflections on island life, books, writing and the environment. No recipes!
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Kingston is a Mess
arly in July, I saw a news story that a new flyover would be built over the Sandy Gully to connect traffic from Dunrobin Avenue to East Kings House Road, close to where I now live.
On theft and the closing of avenues
The year after I retired as CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust, I taught a six-week creative writing summer course at the University of the West Indies to see if this was something I would like to do in retirement.
A Plastic Eye
Most people’s social media accounts show the best parts of their lives – holidays, graduations, birthdays, children and grandchildren, achievements, pretty landscapes and so on.
On Blue Lagoon (again)
Two days ago, there was a story published in the Jamaica Observer about Blue Lagoon (formerly Blue Hole) in Portland.
Destroyer of Words?
I’ve been a huge beneficiary of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
On the Uptown Memoir
And guilt (but not the guilt you expect)
The Present Moment and Arundhati Roy
Today I was going to write a light-hearted post about the relentless tide of exercise advice that comes to older women via social media, but found that given the present moment – a raging war in the Middle East, oil tankers burning, children in a school murdered from the sky, hundreds of people dying, thousand displaced – I could not.
To aspiring writers everywhere
... on dead phones and 'success'
On Endangerment and Captains of Industry
Also incidentally, on the Nobel Peace Prize