The Journal

Essays & field notes

Travel writing, Caribbean folklore, and notes on conscious consumption — published here first, then syndicated to X, Facebook, and Instagram.

Travel Essay

July 4, 2026

The Holy Land As I Experienced It

In January 2006 I moved to Ramallah with my husband and fifteen-year-old son. What I found was not the place the headlines had promised — it was a land immensely misunderstood. From my published 2006 essay.

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La Dolce Vita

July 1, 2026

The Two Little Italians: Fendi & Cristo

One is apricot, accepts sunglasses as her birthright, and answers to Fendi Lucritizia Florentino Coco. The other is black, solemn as a Medici, and rules every stick in Miami Beach. This is their story.

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Folklore

June 20, 2026

La Diablesse: The Devil Woman of Caribbean Folklore

Stunning, with a Caribbean flavor of beauty, she sways along lonely country roads under the full moon — one foot gliding on the path, the other a cloven hoof hidden in the grass.

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Folklore

June 10, 2026

Soucouyants: The Fireball Witches of the Islands

In these jewel lands spread across the sea, the history lends to strange tales. She sheds her wrinkled skin at night, becomes a ball of flame, and hunts — unless five brave children find the mortar first.

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Sustainability

May 28, 2026

Conscious Consumption and the New Bioeconomy

Food containers from sugar-cane bagasse. Straws that outlive their guilt. The opportunities are limitless — what's missing is the choosing. Notes from two decades of ocean advocacy.

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Folklore

May 15, 2026

Papa Bois: Master of the Woods

An animal, a man, a spirit combined into one — a conscience. Immortal. He protects the island forests and the creatures within them, and an old hunter has a warning for anyone who doubts it.

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