# black river (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [Power from the Sun](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/power-from-the-sun)

_2026-08-01 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

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.

## [Kingston is a Mess](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/kingston-is-a-mess)

_2026-07-16 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

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](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/on-theft-and-the-closing-of-avenues)

_2026-07-01 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

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](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/a-plastic-eye)

_2026-06-19 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

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)](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/on-blue-lagoon-again)

_2026-06-10 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

Two days ago, there was a story published in the Jamaica Observer about Blue Lagoon (formerly Blue Hole) in Portland.

## [Destroyer of Words?](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/destroyer-of-words)

_2026-05-24 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

I’ve been a huge beneficiary of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

## [On the Uptown Memoir](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/on-the-uptown-memoir)

_2026-05-17 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

And guilt (but not the guilt you expect)

## [The Present Moment and Arundhati Roy](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/the-present-moment-and-arundhati)

_2026-03-12 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

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](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/to-aspiring-writers-everywhere)

_2026-02-25 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

... on dead phones and 'success'

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## [On Endangerment and Captains of Industry](https://dianamccaulay.substack.com/p/on-endangerment-and-captains-of-industry)

_2026-02-15 · Diana McCaulay · Diana’s Substack - Inroads_

Also incidentally, on the Nobel Peace Prize